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PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Greetings CIMP Members:

I hope you like the format of the new CIMP News-letter. You can thank our General Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Zélia Pereira, for the new look. We plan to have a large Spring Newsletter, and then a short Fall Newsletter. The rationale for this change is that people are very busy and don’t al-ways have time to send in an update on their ac-tivities twice a year. Anyone involved in putting out a newsletter knows how time-consuming it is to constantly send out reminders to the member-ship to send something in. Thanks to everyone who responded to our requests for information on your research activities, or the research and activi-ties in your organization or university group.

Those of us on the Board hope this new policy will result in greater participation by the membership. If you have any suggestions for improvement or comments about the new CIMP Newsletter, please let me or our General Secretary, Zélia Pereira, know your thoughts. Our newsletter is only as good as the material we receive.

As your new President I want to thank everyone for your confidence in electing me. I consider it an honor and privilege to serve CIMP during the next four years. I would be remiss if I didn’t thank the outgoing Board of Marco Vecoli (President), Gary Mullins (General Secretary & Newsletter Editor), Philippe Steemans (Treasurer), Philippe Steemans (Webmaster), and Zélia Pereira (I.F.P.S.) for all

TABLE OF CONTENTS

· PRESIDENT'S LETTER 1 · SECRETARY'S LETTER 2 · TRESURER NOTE 3 · WEBMASTER NOTE 3 · UPCOMING MEETINGS 4 · REPORT ON THE 9TH EPPC MEETING 2014, PADOVA, ITALY 6 · REPORT ON THE 4TH IPC MEETING, ARGENTINA 7 · THE SAUDI ARAMCO - CIMP JOINT STUDIES 11 · NEW MEMBERS 13 · MEMBER ACTIVITIES 13 · MEMBER’S PUBLICA- TIONS 21 · OBITUARIES 32 · INFORMATION’S AND NEWS 33 · CIMP FEES 33 · SUBCOMMISSION ON SPORES AND POLLEN 34 · SUBCOMMISSION ON ACRITARCHS 36 · SUBCOMMISSION ON CHITINOZOANS 38

CIMP President Reed Wicander

Past President Marco Vecoli

Secretary General and Newsletter Editor Zélia Pereira

Treasurer Paulo Fernandes

Webmaster Christian Cesari

I.F.P.S. representatives Zélia Pereira

Graphic design Filipe Barreira (LNEG)

COMMISSION INTERNATIONALE DE MICROFLORE DU PALÉOZOÏQUE Thanks to all members who contributed to this newsletter!

Cover photo: 3D model of palynomorph deposition.

Credit: Filipe Barreira (LNEG)

Sailing along with CIMP

Illustration credits P. Stemans and Frédéric de Ville de Goyet. The illustration shows a picture of a large megaspore Lagenicula milleri (Steemans et al., 2011). The picture presents an unusual view of a specimen. It has been flattened by compression and the specimen is photographed along its edge. It looks like a sailing boat.

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the meeting, see page 4 of the Newsletter.

As I stated in my opening sentence, I hope you like the new format of the CIMP Newsletter and that you find the articles and news informative. If you have any comments or suggestions, please email either me or Zélia Pereira.

Reed Wicander

GENERAL SECRETARY’S LETTER

Dear Colleagues,

It is with enthusiasm that I present to you the new CIMP Newsletter!

As you all know, we have recently been elected to the CIMP main board so we would like to take this opportunity to extend our appreciations to the outgoing board, Marco Vecoli (past-president) and Gary Mullins (General Secretary and Newsletter editor). Philippe Steemans is here acknowledged for all the hard work he has done as CIMP web-master and treasurer, positions that he filled for a long period of time. Thank you all for your work serving CIMP!

Regarding the present team, first of all I would like to thank Reed Wicander for having invited me to apply for the present position. Another note of appreciation is dedicated to all the members that have voted in these elections. Thank you for be-lieving in the future of CIMP!

I would also like to congratulate all the new elect-ed colleagues, Reed Wicander our new president, Paulo Fernandes our new treasurer and Christian Cesari our new webmaster. Congratulations also to the newly elected presidents and secretaries of the subcommissions. The next four years will be a challenge but I’m really looking forward to work-ing with all of you. I hope that together we may bring new strength and energy to CIMP.

This newsletter represents the beginning of a new phase for our news dissemination, stimulated, in part, by the evolution of new media technology. You will see a different layout and a new organiza-tion which we hope will be more efficient and practical to write to and to read. Our main goal is that this new change will motivate the CIMP mem-bership to be more active and more participatory. At this point I need to express my gratitude to Fil-ipe Barreira, the LNEG’s designer for his support and hard work on the presented layout.

You will find in the following sections, CIMP news and information, meet the new members and the new students, read about the members, research, labs and university activities, see the photographs and the reports on last year’s meetings (14th IPC,

their hard work during the past four years. In addi-tion, I know you join with me in thanking them for the excellent job they did in promoting and increas-ing the visibility of CIMP at the international level and maintaining communication with the member-ship through the Newsletter.

My goals for the upcoming four-year term of this Board are to continue and further increase the pres-ence of CIMP at the international level through not only our own meetings, such as the one scheduled this fall in Bergen, Norway, but also by CIMP-sponsored symposia, scientific sessions, workshops, and individual talks at various conferences. In fact, I expect we will have a presence at next year’s 14th International Palynological Congress in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, and the European Paleobotany and Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland, in 2018.

Other goals include increasing student membership in CIMP, which is really the future and lifeblood of our organization. We also need to make sure our membership list is current and stays up to date. You’ll notice in your email all of the names and email addresses of our members. If there are peo-ple involved in Paleozoic palynology, or people you think would be interested in what we do as an or-ganization, and they are not on the email list, please let our General Secretary, Zélia Pereira know who they are and their email address so we can at least send them our current Newsletter. I’d also be hap-py to send them an email encouraging them to join our organization. We are considering posting our membership with email addresses on our website to further facilitate communication with those who might have an interest in what we do.

We are also reaching out to other palynologic/paleontologic organizations such as AASP – The Pal-ynological Society in terms of advertising our meetings in their newsletters and websites. I hope we can expand on this effort in the next four years.

I also want to build on the leadership and strong foundation laid by our past Webmaster Philippe Steemans, by moving ahead with new initiatives regarding our web site. As we all know, we are in the digital age and need to stay current in the ways people communicate and how we present ourselves to the world at large. I am confident our new Web-master, Christian Cesari, will be leading us forward in this area.

Lastly, I hope to see many of you at the CIMP meeting in Bergen, Norway, September 16-19, 2015. The co-organizers, Gunn Mangerud and Gilda Lopes, have worked very hard in putting together an inter-esting and wide-ranging scientific program as well as what promises to be informative and scenic pre- and post-conference field trips. For more details on

Reed Wicander Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Central Michigan Universi-ty, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859 USA [email protected]

Zélia Pereira LNEG - National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (Portuguese Geological Survey), Rua da Amieira, Ap. 1089 4466-901 S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

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Mendoza, Argentina, and 9th EPPC Padua, Italy). I’m very grateful to Claudia Rubinstein for the great report and photographs on the 14th IPC, as well as Gilda Lopes regarding the Padua Meeting. You will also find the announcements of the future meetings, the next CIMP meeting in Bergen, Nor-way, in September, 2015 and the AASP meeting in Baltimore, USA. Hope to see many of you at these meetings!

Finally, I would like to show my gratitude to all of you who have contributed to the present news-letter. Please keep sending us the information! Sub-missions for the next short fall newsletter are al-ready very welcome.

If you have any comments or suggestions to im-prove the newsletter please email us.

Zélia Pereira

TREASURER NOTE

Paulo Fernandes is an Assistant Professor in the De-partment of Earth and Marine Sciences at the Uni-versity of the Algarve in Portugal. His research is multidisciplinary and encompasses field geology, sedimentary geology, stratigraphy, organic petrolo-gy and palynology. He received his first degree in Geology from the University of Porto. After gradua-tion he worked for the Portuguese Geological Sur-vey as a field geologist in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, and in 1995 he started to work for his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Geoff Clayton, Trinity College, Dublin, where he was introduced to Carboniferous palynology. However, his research is more focused on the applied aspects of palynology and dispersed organic matter in sediments, related to the thermal evolution of sedimentary basins and hydrocarbons. Since joining the University of the Algarve he has been supervising several Ph.D. theses on Palaeozoic and Mesozoic palynology of Portugal. Recently, he started a project on the geology of the Karoo in Mozambique, where palynology is an important part of it.

WEBMASTER NOTE

Christian Cesari is a Palynologist - Biostratigrapher currently working in the Geological Technical Servi-ces Division of Saudi Aramco in Dhahran (Saudi Ara-bia). He obtained his MSc in Paleontology from the University of Lille (France) in 2008, then he worked as a junior consultant in palynology with applicati-ons to biostratigraphy for several oil and gas and geological companies. At the same time he was in-volved in some research studies dealing with the terrestrialization process, the Paleozoic palynology

of the north Gondwana domain, the chemical com-position of some Paleozoic palynomorphs, and Neo-proterozoic acritarchs. His main academic and pro-fessional interests focus on the chitinozoan group but he also has an extensive knowledge of Paleozoic acrtitarchs and spores.

As new Webmaster of the Commission Internationa-le de Microflore du Paléozoique, Christian would be very glad to receive any ideas or suggestions regar-ding the website. He also seizes this opportunity to ask CIMP members who are willing to have some pictures of their palynomorphs featured on the

Carte Bonne Année 2015 Credit: Alain Le Hérissé

Christian Cesari Saudi Aramco, P.O. Box 6403 31311 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia [email protected]

Paulo Fernandes CIMA - Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental. Univer-sidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal [email protected]


XVI Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología

This event will be held at La Plata (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina), in May, 26- 29, 2015.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 15th. More information at www.xvisapp.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/index.html.

We hope to see you there!

14th International Palynological Congress, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, 2016

(Date To Be Confirmed)

During the 13th International Palynological Con-gress in Tokyo in late August the IFPS councillors voted to hold the 14th IPC in Brazil. This will be the first time that the IPC will be held in South America. The conference will take place as a joint meeting with the 10th Congress of the Internatio-nal Organisation of Palaeobotany.

European Paleobotany and Palynology Con-ference in Dublin, Ireland, in 2018

(Details at a later time)

UPCOMING MEETINGS

CIMP Meeting 2015

The next CIMP meeting will be held in Bergen, Nor-way in September, 2015.

This meeting is intended to bring together special-ists in Palaeozoic palynology in order to present their work and to discuss various topics that are relevant to a wide range of scientific disciplines, but that cannot always be accommodated in larger, non-specialized, general conferences.

Some of the questions that will be addressed are: What is the current taxonomic status of Paleozoic organic-walled microfossils (acritarchs, chitinozoans, spores, scolecodonts and others)? What are the recent advances in our understanding of the biologi-cal affinities of acritarchs and chitinozoans? What are the best approaches to understanding global changes of palynological assemblages? How can we raise awareness of the societal impact of our sci-ence? What are the recent advances in industrial applications of Palaeozoic palynology? We think that this is an opportune time for the Paleozoic paly-nology community to reaffirm its role in the many and varied fields of modern Earth Science.

A pre-conference excursion to the Oslo region will be offered on September 16th, to the Lower Paleozo-ic sedimentary rocks of the Oslo area, followed by an ice-break cocktail at the University of Bergen. In order for people to take part in this excursion, we recommend flying into Oslo Tuesday night. The ex-cursion will end at the Gardermoen/Oslo airport in time to catch a flight to Bergen and enabling us to take part in the ice-breaker, in Bergen, on that same evening.

The next two days are devoted to talks, posters and the gala dinner on Friday, September 18th. Next day, September 19th, an optional, full day excursion to Finse will take us to glacier landscapes to look at glacially derived deposits, glacial processes, and the glacier itself. We will thus be able to see the effects of recent glaciation and use that to compare to the many Paleozoic periods in the geological record when ice-sheets covered parts of the globe.

All information regarding costs and logistics will be available by March 20th, 2015 and payment will be online. We will do our best to keep registration fees as low as possible, especially for students and re-searchers who are in need of financial support to participate. Registration date and abstract deadline will be May 10th, 2015.

We hope to see all of you in Bergen next September!

The Organizing Committee: Gunn Mangerud, Gilda Lopes (co-organizers), Marco Vecoli (former CIMP president), Reed Wicander (CIMP president).

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aeogeography and climatic implications, or palyno-stratigraphic applied studies. In this conference, the CIMP participation also included 6 posters, revealing some of the interesting projects that the younger students and researchers are developing.

After these sessions, the CIMP General Assembly was held. With all the CIMP members present at the event (more than 20), the assembly was con-ducted by our former President, Marco Vecoli, and the financial report was presented by Philippe Steemans. This was a very important assembly where the newly elected members of the General Commission and several Subcommissions were officially presented and several other important subjects were also discussed, including the new newsletter format, the CIMP meetings interval occurrence and, the future of CIMP, especially regarding the seemingly lack of interest shown by many of the members.

In the last evening the conference social dinner took place at the historical Caffé Pedrocchi and the closing ceremony was at the Geoscience Depart-ment of the University of Padova. For those that stayed behind, several post-conference fieldtrips where held to the Dolomites, Sardinia, Emilia-Romagna, Latium, and Tuscany.

Amazing weather, city, people, landscapes, includ-ing interesting science and research discussions, in the company of colleagues and friends, it was the recipe to another great conference!

Held in the beautiful and historical city of Padova, in Italy, the 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference took place last year from the 26th to the 31st of August, congregating researchers from all over the world including more than twenty CIMP members. It was a major conference that took place at the University of Padova, where many interesting research and studies on vegetation throughout the entire geological record were presented (more than 530 abstracts were submitted).

The event started on the 26th with a welcome cock-tail at the wonderful Old Botanical Garden of the University of Padova, a protected World Heritage site that is the world’s oldest academic garden. In the next day the opening ceremony took place at Palazzo Bo, the main building of the university. It is an historical place where, among other famous sci-entists, Galileu Galilei gave his lectures. In the after-noon, the scientific sessions started and lasted for more than three days, with an extra day dedicated to two mid-conference fieldtrips to Monte Bolca fossil outcrops or to the Quaternary of the Italian Alps. One of the most interesting aspects to be not-ed is that several scientific sessions where dedicated to the Palaeozoic time and to several aspects of Pal-aeozoic vegetation and palynomorphs. Two of those sessions were sponsored by the CIMP: “Palaeozoic of the Arabian Plate” and “What’s trendy in pre-Cambrian and Palaeozoic?”. The CIMP sessions started with a great keynote given by Sa’id Al-Hajri entitled: “On the mutual benefits of collaboration between industry and academia: the palynology of the Paleozoic of Saudi Arabia as a case study”, fol-lowed by thirteen other very interesting talks that embraced several thematics on Palaeozoic palynolo-gy as, for example, spore and cryptospore evolution, structure and ultra-structure; palynology and pal-

REPORT ON THE MEETING 9TH EPPC 2014, PADOVA, ITALY, 26-31 AUGUST 2014 By Gilda Lopes

Photo credits: Gilda Lopes


by local delicatessen and live music. To ensure the social tone of the atmosphere endured, every pos-ter session served different local premium wines with cheese and bread for tasting. The cherry to such a cake came with the great success of a breathtaking gala dinner at Septima Winery in which gourmet food was served to attendees while premium wine never stopped oozing from every corner of the tables surrounding a very special tan-go show followed by some late night dancing.

On a more community-invested note, the congress also encompassed outreach activities such as pub-lic lectures on different subjects of general interest and a palaeoart exhibition for promoting and pro-pelling the work of linking art and palaeontology to produce images representative of life in the geological past. Most remarkably, the meeting also served as frame to import a short version of the Indian based Children’s Education Programme on Petroleum Geology, Energy Efficiency Campaign and Climate Change.

Out of the 896 contributions included in the Ab-stract Volume for the meeting, around 40 dealt with Palaeozoic palynology, thus potentially ap-pealing to CIMP members in the form of oral and poster presentations within symposia and special sessions such as The invasion of land: when and where?; Evolution of photosynthesizing organisms- from microbiota to plants; Ordovician biotas of Gondwana: responses to global climatic and eu-static events, and their biogeographic relationships within the Ordovician world; Comparative palaeoe-cology of Phanerozoic extinction events; The 47th AASP-TPS Annual Meeting; the IGCP 596/SDS Joint Meeting and diverse open sessions.

The 4th International Palaeontological Congress was held in the city of Mendoza, Argentina, from Sep-tember 28 to October 3, 2014. A global meeting devoted to Palaeontology throughout the world by convening every four years under the aegis of the International Palaeontological Association, this edi-tion of the 4IPC, at the foothills of the Andes and in the midst of an entirely novel context, constituted the first time this important event took place in America. Having been hosted by the Centro Científi-co Tecnológico CONICET Mendoza and organized by top specialists, both local and international, in lead-ing fields of paleontological research, its venue drew in almost a thousand scientific participants of whom a staggering amount were students. The fact that attendees had the opportunity to interact with col-leagues coming from 50 different countries ren-dered the conference truly international.

During the congress, contributions, both oral and poster, were orchestrated in a varied array of meeting styles including plenary lectures (5), sympo-sia on leading issues (22), interactive workshops (4) and technical sessions (24), thus enriching the meeting in nearly every aspect. Beside the academic facet of the gathering, the meeting also provided participants with the unique opportunity to discuss experiences, explore new research directions and debate topics with specialists from across the globe while embarking on several field trips, pre-, post- and intra-congress, covering not only some of the most relevant palaeontological settings in the coun-try but also including visits to the main tourist attractions all over Argentina. Furthermore, social events framing the lectures were as important. With an enjoyable welcome party held at the local Shera-ton lobby, the laidback and chattering warm tone of the event was easily embraced by attendees wooed

We cordially invite you to download the Abstract volume at www.ipc4mendoza2014.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Abstract-Volume-IPC4.pdf CIMP members involved in the organization: Claudia V. Rubinstein: General Chair; G. Susana de la Puente: Commu-nication & Publicity Victoria; J. García Muro: Collaborator

REPORT ON THE 4TH IPC MEETING, ARGENTINA By Claudia Rubinstein

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Field trip-Darwin and the Highest Andes.


Results of these 20+ years of continuing collabora-tion have been impressive: major advances in the understanding of the palaeogeographical and stratigraphical distribution of the main Palaeozoic palynomorphs have been made, which have been regularly presented in international congresses throughout the years. The 8th International Palyno-logical Congress at Aix-En-Provence, France, in 1992 was the first to host a special session on the Palynostratigraphy of the Arabian Plate, where initial results of the Saudi Aramco – CIMP Joint Studies were presented. The papers presented at the 8th IPC were then published in a Special Issue of Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology in 1995 (Owens et al., 1995). This concluded the first phase of the project, demonstrating the potential of palynology as the primary tool in local to region-al correlation, but also highlighting the need for further investigations across the entire Kingdom, to achieve a better understanding of the distinc-tive Palaeozoic palynology of the Arabian Plate. The focus of the second phase of the Project would concentrate on detailed systematic studies of palynological assemblages to describe the many endemic taxa that had been discovered during the initial phase of the research. This highlighted the complex palynostratigraphic relationships and palaeobiogeographic differences between the Euramerican and Gondwanan palynological associ-ations. These results were also presented in vari-ous international congresses (e.g., the CIMP Gen-eral Meeting in Lille, France in 2002, and the 11th International Palynological Congress in Granada, Spain, in 2004) and constituted the subject of a second Special Volume, this time published in Ge-oArabia (Al-Hajri and Owens, 2000), which remains a key reference for Palaeozoic palynology of Gond-wana. A third phase of the Project followed, which focused on specific problems, e.g., the palaeonvi-ronmental interpretation of palynological assem-blages in Ordovician successions, including: the glacial-related deposits of latest Ordovician (Hirnantian) times, the taxonomy of Devonian spores, and the comparison with assemblages from North Africa, Turkey, and Iran. These results are illustrated in a Special Issue of Revue de Micro-paléontologie (Paris et al., 2007).

The fourth phase of the project is recent history, concentrating on new Ordovician-Silurian material made available by the Qusaiba-1 shallow core

The discovery of large hydrocarbon accumulations in Palaeozoic sediments in the subsurface of Saudi Arabia by Saudi Aramco Oil Company in the ‘80s and early ‘90s highlighted the need for the establish-ment of refined biozonations to facilitate the under-standing of stratigraphic structures in the subsur-face, enhance correlation of sedimentary sequenc-es, and facilitating palaeoenvironmental interpreta-tions. Although pioneer palynological studies of Pal-aeozoic sequences were developed in-house by Sau-di Aramco since the ’60s (e.g., Hemer and Nygree, 1967), in general, the pre-Mesozoic rocks had re-ceived little attention by exploration palynologists before 1990. Only a few regional studies were avail-able and there was excessive reliance on long range correlation, particularly with the distant Eurameri-can palaeogeographic domain. To solve this prob-lem and to tackle the monumental task of docu-menting, in detail, the palynostratigraphy of the Palaeozoic of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and building a reliable, high-resolution palynostrati-graphic scheme that could be used for oil explora-tion operations, a collaborative project was estab-lished between Saudi Aramco Oil Company and the Commission Internationale de Microflore du Palé-ozoïque in November 1990. At that time, CIMP al-ready had a long established relationship with in-dustry, which started with the coal industry in the late fifties, then expanding into the oil and gas in-dustry as coal exploration declined.

The Palaeozoic Palynostratigraphy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia joint project between Saudi Ar-amco and CIMP focuses on the accurate descrip-tion of palynological assemblages (acritarchs, chi-tinozoans, spores, scolecodonts) from the exten-sive Palaeozoic successions of Saudi Arabia, both in outcrop and subsurface, and their stratigraphical, palaeoenvironmental, and palaeogeographical ap-plication. It is now a well-established, long-term collaboration between the palynologists of the Exploration Technical Services Department and academic palynologists within CIMP, based on mu-tual benefit. Academic researchers benefit from access to rich and well preserved palynological material from subsurface and outcrop locations that would be otherwise inaccessible, while Saudi Aramco benefits from the highly specialized, en-thusiastic international expertise, delivering high-quality data that can be put to immediate use for exploration purposes by staff palynologists.

THE SAUDI ARAMCO – CIMP JOINT STUDIES, A LONG-TERM COLLABORATIVE PROJECT UNVEILING THE PALAEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY OF SAUDI ARABIA By Marco Vecoli, Pierre Breuer, Christian Cesari – Biostratigraphy Group, Geological Technical Service Department, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.


Wellman, C.H., Breuer, P., Miller, M.A., Owens, B., Al-Hajri, S., 2015. Palaeozoic palynostratigraphy of the Arabian Plate (a joint project between Saudi Aramco and the Commission Internationale de Microflore du paleozoique). Review of Plaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 212, 226 pp.

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 212, Pages 1-226 (January 2015)

Table of Contents:

Palaeozoic palynostratigraphy of the Arabian plate [a joint project between Saudi Aramco and the Commission Inter-nationale de Microflore du Paléozoïque (CIMP)] Charles H. Wellman, Pierre Breuer, Merrell A. Miller, Ber-nard Owens, Sa'id Al-Hajri Pages 1-2

Lithostratigraphy and depositional history of Upper Ordovi-cian and lowermost Silurian sediments recovered from the Qusaiba-1 shallow core hole, Qasim region, central Saudi Arabia John Melvin Pages 3-21

Late Ordovician to early Silurian acritarchs from the Qusai-ba-1 shallow core hole, central Saudi Arabia Alain Le Hérissé, Stewart G. Molyneux, Merrell A. Miller Pages 22-59

Late Ordovician–earliest Silurian chitinozoans from the Qusaiba-1 core hole (North Central Saudi Arabia) and their relation to the Hirnantian glaciation Florentin Paris, Jacques Verniers, Merrell A. Miller, Sa'id Al-Hajri, John Melvin, Charles H. Wellman Pages 60-84

Late Ordovician scolecodonts from the Qusaiba-1 core hole, central Saudi Arabia, and their paleogeographical affinities Olle Hints, Florentin Paris, Sa'id Al-Hajri Pages 85-96

Cryptospores from the Hanadir Shale Member of the Qasim Formation, Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Saudi Arabia: taxono-my and systematics Paul K. Strother, Alfred Traverse, Marco Vecoli Pages 97-110

Spore assemblages from Upper Ordovician and lowermost Silurian sediments recovered from the Qusaiba-1 shallow core hole, Qasim region, central Saudi Arabia Pages 111-126

Charles H. Wellman, Philippe Steemans, Merrell A. Miller Early Silurian chitinozoans from the Qusaiba type area, North Central Saudi Arabia Pages 127-186

Florentin Paris, Merrell A. Miller, Sa'id Al-Hajri, Jan Za-lasiewicz Climate-controlled palynofacies and miospore stratigraphy of the Jauf Formation, Lower Devonian, northern Saudi Arabia Pierre Breuer, Merrell A. Miller, Stanislaw Leszczyński, Phili-ppe Steemans Pages 187-213

Bisaccate pollen from the Early Permian OSPZ3a Sub-Biozone of the Lower Gharif Member, Oman Michael H. Stephenson Pages 214-225

hole, as well as following up on other projects. The end of the Project’s fourth phase is marked by the very recent publication of a new Special Issue of Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (Wellman et al., 2015). The table of contents for that volume is given below.

We are now in the fifth phase of the Project: current investigations focus on a variety of subjects such as detailed analyses of the palynology and palaeoenvi-ronmental interpretation of the transition between the Saq and Qasim formations, taxonomy, palaeobi-ology and stratigraphic significance of Ordovician-Silurian cryptospore and chitinozoan assemblages, the implementation and testing of a new method for assessing thermal maturity of organic matter in the absence of vitrinite, and the palynostratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous of Saudi Arabia. Results from the current phase of the Project were present-ed at special sessions at the 45th Annual Meeting of the AASP in Lexington, Kentucky, USA (2012), the 46th Annual Meeting of the AASP in San Francisco, California, USA (2013), and at the 9th EPPC Meeting in Padova, Italy, in 2014.

The next Project Progress Report with be held in conjunction with the CIMP Meeting, which is being organized in Bergen, in September 2015. As usual, a special session on the palynology of the Palaeozoic of the Arabian Plate and adjoining regions will take place, where results of our project and other rele-vant investigations will be presented.

The Saudi Aramco – CIMP Joint Studies Project has been, and continues to be, highly beneficial to both parties; the Company highly values the scientific advice of the academic specialists, which contrib-utes in a cost-effective manner to securing a state-of-the-art in-house database, establishing a re-source that will be available to the next generations of staff. The CIMP partners enjoy the access to pre-cious palynological material with the opportunity to publish results of palynological research with high quality geological framework support.

References:

Al-Hairi, S., Owens, B. (Eds.), 2000. Stratigraphic palynology of the Palaeozoic of Saudi Arabia. GeoArabia Special Publication vol. 1., 231 pp.

Hemer, D.O., Nygreen, P.W., 1967. Algae, acritarchs and oth-er microfossils incertae sedis from the Lower Carboniferous of Saudi Arabia. Micropaleontology, vol. 13, pp. 183-194.

Owens, B., Al-Tayyar, H., Van Der Eem, J.G.L.A., Al-Hajri, S. (Eds.), 1995. Palaeozoic palynostratigraphy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 89, 150 pp.

Paris, F., Owens, B., Miller, M.A. (Eds.), 2007. Palaeozoic paly-nology of the Arabian Plate and adjacent areas. Revue de Micropaleontologie, vol. 50, no. 1, 148 pp.

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provide “A comprehensive view of the first floras of the Iberian Peninsula through the analysis of micro-fossil record (pollen and spores) in paleoma-rino-coastal environments.”

I am being supervised by (1) the titular professor José Bienvenido Diez Ferrer, as well as by (2) the Marie Curie COFUND postdoctoral researcher Bor-ja Cascales-Miñana.

OLGA ORLOVA Lomonosov Moscow State University Leninskiy gory Moscow, Russia Russia 119991 Professional Member [email protected]

YAN LIANG 39 East Beijing Road Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS Nanjing, Jiangsu Province China 210008 Position: Student [email protected]

I am a Ph.D candidate at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My name is Yan LIANG, and I am working on Ordovician chitinozoans. I am going to finish my doctoral dissertation this coming May, and, in ad-dition, I have already gotten a job of our institute so that I can continue my chitinozoan study in the future.

MEMBER ACTIVITIES

ADNAN M.HASSAN KERMANDJI University of Constantine 1, Laboratory of Ethnobotany-Palynology and Ethnopharmacology-Toxicology, Faculty of Na-ture and Life, Department of Biology and Ecology, Constantine, Algeria [email protected]

Adnan is struggling on with the teaching that takes up most of his time until the semester break. Though he always spares some part of his time for a number of rigorous research projects. I am con-tinuing my study of a rich assemblage of cryp-tospores-miospores and in situ spores from the well exposed Silurian and Devonian in several pro-jects concerning taxonomical biozonal issues on palynology and palaeobotany that will allow to improve the comparisons and correlation of mega and microfloras occurring in the Silurian and the Devonian basins such as Oued Soura Depression, Tidikelt Plateau, Illizi and Reggan of south-western and south-eastern Sahara Algeria and can be cor-related with well established miospore biostratig-raphy of Euro-American, Gondwanan and from other basins of North Africa. The study on Silurian and Lower Devonian sediment of Oued Saoura Depression south-western Sahara Algeria will con-tribute to the knowledge’s on the biostratigraphy, palaeophytogeography and palaeoclimatic events.

NEW MEMBERS

CIMP would like to welcome the following new members:

ALEXANDER ASKEW University of Sheffield Position: Student [email protected]

I have just commenced a Ph.D. research project at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Charles Wellman. My research project entails a paly-nological investigation of the Middle Devonian Naranco Formation (Asturias) – Huergas Formation (Leon) – Gustalapiedra Formation (Palencia). The aim is to correlate these laterally equivalent for-mations and document their varied palaeoenviron-ments (and hopefully identify and analyse the Kačák Event). In January I undertook my first fieldwork in this region.

DMITRIY MAMONTOV Leninskie gory, 1, Lomonosow Moscow State University Moscow, Moscow region Russian Federation 119991 Research interests: Paleoecology and palynostratigraphy of the Visean miospores of the Moscow Syneclise; [email protected]

My name is Dmitriy A. Mamontov. I am 26 years old. I graduated as a paleontologist and have a postgrad-uate diploma from the Department of Paleontology of the Geological faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Currently I work as senior teacher at the same University. My PhD research, still in progress, is dedicated to the Visean mio-spores of the Moscow Syneclise. My research inter-ests focus on the palynostratigraphy of Visean de-posits of the region and the paleoecological inter-pretation of the miospore assemblages. Recently I became interested in fossil spore ultrastructure and palynofacies analysis.

At present, my general attention is focused on two goals: the detail definition of new miospore genera from the Upper Visean of the Kaluga Region and the comparative study of ultrastructure of some disper-sal miospores from the same Region.

GONZALO RIAL Universidade de Vigo, Marine Geosciences and Territorial Planning, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain 36200, Position: Student Research interest: Devonian Miospore caracterization at the Iberi-an Peninsula (Spain) [email protected]

I'm a Mining Engineer from the University of Vigo and am currently conducting my PhD studies in the framework of 'Marine Science, Technology and Management. This PhD study is being performed in the 'Campus do Mar' 'program. My thesis aims to

Diatomozonotriletes jubatus (Staplin) Playford, 1963; Raistri-kia nigra Love, 1960. Micropho-tos credit: Mamontov D.A.

Alexander Askew

Yan Liang

Dmitriy Mamontov

Gonzalo Rial








sis is in preparation after three years analyzing the material; 4. Microfossil associations from the early Devonian of Uruguay, in collaboration with Gloria Daners, University of Montevideo, and Pierre Breuer; 5. Early Devonian microfossils from the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts, Scotland, in collabo-ration with Christine Strullu and Paul Kenrick, Nat-ural History Museum, London; 6. Phytoplanctonic associations from Paleozoic of North Africa (Morroco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia), mainly on sub-surface material in different basins.

I am supervising one PHD Student, Tristan Hatin, on late Quaternary diatoms over the last 500 Ky, in the Congo deep sea fan.

AMALIA SPINA [email protected]

From 2012 I'm involved in the bilateral project: “Paleontology and Biozonation of Paleozoic Sedi-ments of Central Iran and Zagros Basins”. Resp. Prof. Roberto Rettori (Physics and Geology Depart-ment, University of Perugia) and Prof. Mansour Ghorbani (PARS GEOLOGICAL RESERCH CENTER, Teheran, Iran). Moreover, as a member of the or-ganizing committee, I would like to invite you to the International Congress on “Palaeozoic stratig-raphy of Gondwana” to be held in Perugia (Italy) on April 14-16, 2016.

The Congress will be organized and conducted by the Department of Physics and Geology (University of Perugia, Italy) and Arianzamin, Pars Geological Research Center of Tehran, Iran (APGC).

The Congress will cover a wide range of topics in-cluding paleontology, stratigraphy, organic geo-chemistry, paleogeography, geodynamic and pe-troleum exploration. The programs will focus on addressing interdisciplinary approaches to make the state-of-the-art technology to expand on the knowledge about on the Paleozoic Gondwana realm. This will provide an opportunity for con-structive interactions between academia and in-dustry in exchanging ideas, perspectives and chal-lenges.

The conference will comprise of 3 days of talks, poster sessions and the invited plenary will talk on the relevant topics of particular interests. Abstract and discourse submissions for presentation shall be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and the conveners. The proceedings shall be published in a volume dedicated to the Congress contribution of the international journal “Rivista Italiana di Pale-ontologia e Stratigrafia”.

BERNARD OWENS [email protected]

The project considers the creation of human re-sources through scientific work of students. An im-portant achievement of the working group on the Upper Silurian and the Lower Lochkovian to early Lower Eifelian chronostratigraphy and palaeoenvi-ronment will be published shortly. The study unit make up the initiation to discuss and create a re-gional biostratigraphic system on miospore contain of the Uppermost Silurian-Lower Devonian of Alge-ria. This is because that the well established mio-spore biozone in the Western Europe and North America for Přídolían–Lower Devonian not common to the Algerian deposits of the same period. All members of the unit agreed that the best way is to create miospore biozones that can be valid regional-ly and probably on a Gondwanan scale.

I also continue research on palynostratigraphic stud-ies of the marine Silurian and Devonian sediments from Kef Toumiate Mountains, north east Constan-tine, Sillon Atlasique Basin (highly complicated structural region). I am working this project with Bernard Owens, Khelifi Touhami, Berarhe Elhasan and Khelid Boulifa. The study results will be pub-lished soon.

The other miospore related project a is a compre-hensive palynological analysis on a Přídolían and Lower Devonian sequence from a subsurface sec-tion of the Stah in the Illizi Basin. It is in progress. The sequence is essentially marine and thus also contains rich acritarchs and chitinozoan assemblag-es. Definitely we will integrate palynological zona-tion and module for early land plant evolution based on occurred palynomorphs.

ALAIN LE HÉRISSÉ Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UMR 6538 CNRS « Domaines Océaniques », CS93837 – 6 Avenue Le Gorgeu, 29238 BREST Cedex – France [email protected]

Continues working on organic-walled microfossils (acritarchs and associated microalgae) from the Paleozoic, with emphasis on biostratigrapy and evo-lution of biodiversity in response to climatic and oceanographic changes.

Current activities at that time include: 1. Study of acritarchs and other microalgae in the Middle Ordo-vician of Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with Marco Vecoli, Aramco, and Philippe Steemans and Charly Wellman for the miospores and other elements of primitive vegetation; 2. A distinctive marginal ma-rine palynological assemblage from the Pridoli of Saudi Arabia, with Said Al Hajri, Pierre Breuer, Flor-entin Paris, Jacques Verniers, Philippe Steemans and Charly Wellman; 3. Ordovician to upper Devonian microphytoplanctonic associations from northern Brazilian Basins, in collaboration with José Henrique Melo and Marcia Longhim from Petrobras: a synthe-


ozoic still is on a kind of palynofacies analysis ap-plied to hydrocarbon exploration, including palaeo-environmental and basin analysis just as hydrocar-bon prospectivity. Main interests are in the upper Ordovician to lower Silurian of Poland, Russia and Arabia and in the uppermost Devonian to Lower Carboniferous / Namurian in Germany, Poland and a bit of northern Africa and the USA. Palynostrati-graphical studies are less common, but I’m looking forward to a new study on the Lower Carbonifer-ous in eastern Europe, which is actually negotiat-ed. Beside the commercial studies I’m still working on the palynostratigraphy and palynofacies in short wells from the northern Rhenish Massif as much as possible, focused on the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary and the upper Visean to lower Namurian. Additional to the palynology in the Palaeozoic I'm still interested in the palynology of mostly exotic carbonate environments, ranging from the Neoproterozoic in southern Africa to the Jurassic to Cretaceous in southern Germany, Chile and Mexico.

JACQUES VERNIERS Ghent University, Belgium [email protected]

This academic year is the last year where my major occupation is in education and department admin-istration as mentioned last year. After retiring in October 2015 I have the opportunity to keep part time an office at the Ghent University and contin-ue mainly chitinozoan research of the ongoing projects. This summer in Padova I presented some new Telychian and Sheinwoodian chitinozoans from Kentucky and Ohio, USA samples in 2011, with Brad Cramer, Carl Brett and Mark Kleffner.

In 2014 together with Thijs Vandenbroucke I su-pervised the Master thesis of Thomas Steeman, on the on the chitinozoan and δ13Ccarb biochemos-tratigraphy of the Homerian and Gorstian in Wales (one publication published, one submitted and another in preparation). At the Master students day of Geologica Belgica theses of the passed aca-demic year in Belgium are presented in October 2014 and Thomas was awarded the price for the best presentation of his research.

This year Thijs Vandenbroucke and I supervised the Master thesis of Lander Soens on chitinozoans and carbon isotopes of Homerian strata in a bore-hole from Poland.

We were very happy to see the successful defense in September 2014 of the PhD thesis of Jan Mortier with the title “The evolution of the Upper Ordovician to Silurian basin in the Condroz Inlier and the Brabant Massif from a litho- and biostratigraphical point of view”. It contains more than 26 plates with chitinozo-ans, and many detailed descriptions of the outcrops.

Collaboration with Geoff Clayton, Duncan McLean, Ken Higgs and Janine Pendleton to complete com-prehensive revision of the Clayton et al. (1977) pal-ynozonation of the Carboniferous of the British Isles. Taxonomy of new early Pennsylvanian mio-spore species from northern England. Morphology of Carboniferous cinguli-zonate miospores with par-ticular reference to the genus Vallatisporites Car-boniferous palynostratigraphy of the Arabian Plate.

CHARLES WELLMAN University of Sheffield [email protected]

I continue to work on long term projects on: (i) ear-ly terrestrial ecosystems from the Palaeoproterozo-ic ca. 1 Ga deposits of the Torridonian (Scotland) and Nonesuch Formation (Michigan, USA); (ii) early land plant spore assemblages from the Ordovician-Silurian of Oman and Saudi Arabia, Late Silurian-Lower Devonian of Scotland, and Lower Devonian of eastern Canada and Spitsbergen. 2015 saw the publication of the fourth volume emanating from the CIMP/Saudi Aramco joint project: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology Special Issue v. 212 ‘Palaeozoic palynostratigraphy of the Arabian Plate [a joint project between Saudi Aramco and the Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paleo-zoique (CIMP)]’.

CLAUDIA V. RUBINSTEIN , VICTORIA J. GARCÍA MURO Paleopalynology, IANIGLA-CCT-CONICET-Mendoza, C.C. 131 Men-doza (5500), Argentina [email protected] [email protected]

G. SUSANA DE LA PUENTE, CONICET Dpto. de Geología y Petróleo, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400 (Q8300IBX), Neuquén, Argentina [email protected]

We are currently working on marine phytoplankton and miospores from Ordovician, Silurian and Devo-nian strata of western Argentina. Our projects and recent contributions mainly deal with diversity of palynomorph assemblages, biostratigraphy, palaeo-geography, palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimates of the Precordillera Basin, in the central-west of Argentina, and the Central Andean Basin, in the north-west of Argentina.

In April, a new student will begin working on his PhD project on Ordovician-Silurian acritarchs and mio-spores of the Central Andean Basin in the Palynolo-gy Group of Mendoza (Argentina), under the super-vision of Claudia Rubinstein and the co-supervision of G. Susana de la Puente.

HARTMUT JÄGER [email protected]

My main focus in palynological research in the Palae-





To be confronted to the palynological analysis of many new stratigraphic sections on a daily basis, is a challenging task and a great chance to continue to expand my knowledge and competences, espe-cially by discussions and exchange with the highly skilled palynologists in our group as well as the sedimentologists and regional geologists of the exploration department. I am also involved in the mentoring and training of young professionals in building their career as biostratigraphers, and in coordinating the activities of the Saudi Aramco – CIMP joint project, which through the collabora-tion of different academic institutions, gives me the opportunity to cultivate my palynological re-search into the origin and early evolution of land plants (“terrestrialization”), evolution of oceanic microphytoplankton during the Palaeozoic, and the effects of these evolutionary events of the Earth System.

During the last year, some publications went to press which related to my previous research at the University of Lille, as I start to get to pace in pre-senting and writing papers related to my current activity in Saudi Arabia.

MAŁGORZATA MOCZYDŁOWSKA -VIDAL Micropalaeontological studies at Uppsala University, Depart-ment of Earth Sciences, are carried out by Małgorzata Moczy-dłowska-Vidal and Sebastian Willman, and our Ph.D. students Heda Agić and Emma Arvestal.

The major theme of our research is the evolution-ary history of unicellular, prokaryotic and eukary-otic microorganisms that are interpreted to be of cyanobacterial and algal origins and some of yet unresolved affinities, appearing in the fossil record throughout the Proterozoic and early Palaeozoic times. The currently studied microfossil assem-blages are from the Mesoproterozoic, Cryogenian, Ediacaran, Cambrian and the earliest Ordovician successions from various regions in Australia, Chi-na, Siberia, and the East European Platform. We are using various microscopic and spectroscopic techniques to reveal phenotypic features and cell wall ultrastructure and biochemistry of microfos-sils that are extracted from the sediment by paly-nological methods.

The major project, which is granted to Małgorzata by the Swedish Research Council, is concerned with the studies of biological affinities of marine phytoplankton and their phylogenetic relation-ships. As a result, timing of the diversification of photosynthesising eukaryotes and the origin of sexual reproduction is estimated. These events are among the most significant in the evolution of biosphere that had a profound influence on the oxygenation of hydro- and atmosphere. The re-search is a part of two doctoral projects.

JOHN MARSHALL AND THE SOUTHAMPTON GROUP [email protected]

Another busy year in Devonian spore world. I man-aged to get a semester of study leave in 2014. Part of this I spent at NIGPAS in Nanjing, China. I worked with Zhu Huaicheng, and Wang Yi on spores from Yunnan. I was very pleased to be able to revisit and resample in detail the Maoshangxiang locality where we had discovered an interesting endemic microflora in 2006. This included spores otherwise only known from either Australia or Saudi Arabia.

In June I went to New York State with Jenny Morris (Sheffield) and Dave Carpenter (Southampton) to work with colleagues from the New York State Mu-seum. We collected charcoal through the Devonian sequence and studied the Mid Devonian forest lo-calities where Jenny and colleagues had previously drilled a series of cores through the underlying pal-aeosols.

Conference attendance was busy with presentations at AASP in San Francisco, CIMP at the EPPC in Pad-ua, IPC4 in Argentina and PalAss in Leeds, UK.

Continuing PhD students working on the Palaeozoic are Jon Lakin who is just completing his thesis on the D-C boundary glacigenic sequence in Bolivia, Dave Carpenter who is acquiring a mid Silurian to Carboniferous time series on micro-charcoal as an atmospheric oxygen palaeoproxy and Emma Reeves who is working on the palynology of the TW:eed project borehole through the earliest Carboniferous in the Scottish Borders. This is to tie, with palynolo-gy, the new discoveries of early tetrapods in Scot-land.

This year’s new start is Charlotte Aldred who is look-ing at metals, organic matter and pyrite from the Bowland Shale in northern Britain. There is a strong focus on this unit as an exploration target with gas to be produced by fracking. Charlotte is investigating where metals are hosted within the rock and how they might be mobilised into flowback waters fol-lowing fracking.

MARCO VECOLI Biostratigrapher (palynologist) at Saudi Aramco Oil Company, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

My activity focuses mostly on Cambrian to Permian paly-nomorphs (acritarchs, chitinozoans, miospores, pollen) in application to high resolution biostratigraphy, and palaeoenvironmental-sequence stratigraphic recon-structions for hydrocarbon exploration. I am working on several regional projects in the Ordovician and Silurian in the NW of Saudi Arabia, as well as on providing real time, on-site and remote assistance to exploration drill-ing operations (identification of drilled formation, deter-mination of coring point, formation at TD, etc).


producers at the base of evolving trophic web at the Proterozoic-Cambrian transition that pawed the way for the development of animals.

Geochemical and ultrastructural studies of organic matter comprised in body walls of the early, or-ganically preserved metazoans are methodologi-cally similar to those used in studies of resistant biopolymers in unicellular microorganisms. The search of biochemical composition of organic ma-terials synthesized by microbes and metazoans provide the insights into the biochemical evolution through time. It unravels the major changes in synthesis of resistant macromolecules that al-lowed evolution of multicellularity and biomineral-ization. This was a part of the evolutionary success of metazoans and later on the terrestrial plants.

Scientific activity Małgorzata was the member of the Scientific Advi-sory Board at the 4th International Palaeontological Congress, September 28–October 3, 2014, Mendo-za, Argentina, and the organizer and convenor Session 14. Evolution of photosynthesizing organ-isms – from microbiota to plants. The session was sponsored and kindly supported by The Palaeonto-logical Association. Three of us, Małgorzata, Heda and Emma, participated in the congress and the field excursion to the Andes in the footsteps of Darwin. The field excursion “Darwin and the high-est Andes” provided the opportunity to examine the geologic successions of the Central Andes, and one of the classic sections visited and described by Darwin in 1835. Darwin, in his pioneering trip across the Andes along the mule trail, not only observed the living biota and collected palaeonto-logical specimens, but was the first to describe the geology of the High Andes. Well before the plate tectonic theory was formulated, Darwin under-stood the dynamic mechanisms in mountain rang-es building, such as earthquakes, volcanism and

Heda’s doctoral project is entitled “Origins of Prote-rozoic-Cambrian photosynthetic microbiota” and the plans are that she will defend her thesis at the end of 2015. The objective of the project is to deter-mine the sequential emergence of photosynthetic microorganisms and their phylogenetic affiliations in the Proterozoic and Cambrian times by phenotypic studies and cell wall biochemistry and ultrastruc-ture. Establishing the affinities and timing of the origins of discrete phyla/classes by fossil record would reconcile with phylogenetic relationships among early lineages of the Chlorophytes and the tree of life of the Chloroplastida based on molecular biology and genomics of modern biota. This will elucidate the time of the origin of photosynthesis in algae and endosymbiosis of plastids, and further evolution of autotrophic eukaryotes.

Emma began her Ph.D.work last year and her pro-ject is on “Microorganisms from the late Neoprote-rozoic-early Phanerozoic”. The methods include morphologic and ultrastructural/geochemical stud-ies of organic-walled specimens and their cell

wall at micro- and nanoscale by various microscopic techniques (LM, SEM, TEM, confocal laser Raman microscopy/spectroscopy). Multidisciplinary ap-proach and advanced methods in studying microfos-sils and particulate organic matter will provide relia-ble data for further interpretations. Set in geological time frame, we may recognize the major divergence events of photosynthesising microbiota, their adap-tation and survival of environmental stress, and their impact on global environmental change.

Małgorzata Moczydłowska is also the investigator in the multidisciplinary project supported by The Re-search Council in Norway, entitled “The Digermul Peninsula – a window into the early diversification of animal life” and led by Dr. Anette Högström at Tromsø University Museum. Her contribution, in-volving Heda Agic studies, deals with the primary

Photomicrographs: Microfossils representing microalgal zygotic cysts and preserved with the internal bodies, which are endocysts containing offspring cells or gamets. Skiagia ornata is from the lower Cambrian of the Arrowie Basin, South Australia. Tanarium tuberosum is from the Ediacaran Ura Formation, Patom Uplift, East Siberia. (Moczydłowska, 2015, Palynol-ogy, in press).

Field excursion to the High Andes at the 4th International Palaeontological Congress 2014, Mendoza, Argentina. From left to right, Małgorzata, Emma and Heda at the Puente del Inca locality, described for the first time by Darwin in 1835.


bers libraries). I hope also to contribute with a poster on the Famennian in Eastern Belgium at the next meeting of the Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS) in Brussels next September. As I have written to Gilda I very much regret the clash of the Brussels and Bergen meetings (The same days!) but I doubt anyway to have been able to go to Norway (too much tiring for me now then I reach the 80th this year!).

I also accepted a suggestion of Hartmut to "write up a short history about CIMP: the people that started it, the people that served at the board of CIMP during the years, the places where CIMP met and so on". But unfortunately this will not be ready for the next newsletter.

MERCEDES DI PASQUO Argentina [email protected]

Mercedes di Pasquo is working mainly on the Silu-rian–Permian palynofloras (and megafloras) of South America in collaboration with several col-leagues from Argentina (Sol Noetinger, María Vergel, Daniel Starck, Juan Pablo Milana, Victoria Valdéz), and elsewhere (e.g., Paulo A. Souza, Rob-erto Iannuzzi, Gordon Wood, Peter Isaacson, George Grader, James Martin, Heidi Anderson, Enrique Díaz Martínez, Delfino Hernández, Benja-min Kneller, Paulo Paim, William Matsumura). Actually, last contributions deal with palynofloras from the Mississippian Poti Formation of northeast-ern Brazil, in collaboration with Roberto Iannuzzi, and another is related to the “Global biostratigraph-ic comparison and correlation of an early Cisuralian palynoflora from Bolivia”.

During 2013 she was working on the Carboniferous and Permian palynofloras of the Paraná Basin and its comparison to South American basins at the UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil), thanks to the Brazili-an Program “Science without borders” CNPq (2013-2014), as a Special Foreign Researcher (di Pasquo and Souza, 2014). Since 2014 she is also partici-pating as Victoria Valdez´s co-supervisor, together with Paulo Paim (UNISINOS, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil), and contributing with Carboniferous palynostrati-graphic data to her geological study of the Precor-dillera Argentina. Mercedes is also working with William Matsumura, who is finishing his PhD at UFRGS with his supervisor R. Iannuzzi, on the Mid-late Devonian floras (especially the genus Hap-lostigma) from the Paraná Basin (Brazil). She is carrying on the analysis of the palynoassemblages associated to the plant deposits that are correlata-ble to the Bolivia and northern Argentina ones (di Pasquo et al., 2013).

uplift. One of the successions visited by Darwin was our own inspiration and a great memory document-ed by photograph showing, from left to right, Małgorzata, Emma and Heda at the Puente del Inca locality.

Małgorzata attended the 9th European Palaeobotany Palynology Conference at Padova, Italy, 29-31 Au-gust 2014, and presented talk in the session S38.

Sebastian continues his research on the Ediacaran microbiota and biochronology with the purpose of

establishing the potential Global Stratotype Section and Point of the Ediacaran System, which is the aim of the IUGS, ICS, Working Group on the Ediacaran Subdivision.

At our Department, Sebastian is responsible for sci-entific outreach and education in Earth Sciences, including geoturism in the Baltic countries and edu-cational activity in schools and society.

Heda presented in March, 2014, her thesis for the degree of Filosofie Licentiat entitled “Microfossils of eukaryotic cysts through time – a study of Precam-brian-Ordovician organic-walled microbiota”. During the summer, she participated in the International Geobiology Course 2014, USC Dornsife, and field-work in the area of the Walker Lake, Nevada. The project work and studies on stromatolites and glob-al climate change during the Pleistocene resulted in the poster presentation at the 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, 19-22nd October, 2014.

Emma took part in the expedition to a newly discov-ered locality in the Marvel Canyon in the Rocky Mountains (Alberta, Canada) with the research team led by Prof. Jean-Bernard Caron (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto). The succession contains Middle Cambrian, exceptionally preserved fossils like those from the Burgess Shale type locality, and both as-semblages are dominated by arthropods. However, the fossils from the new site are better preserved and it may appear that the Marvel Canyon sediment contains also organic-walled microfossils. Emma collected samples for her studies, and if successful in recovering microfossils, the material would be unique for biostratigraphic correlation of metazoan- and microbial-based zones.

MAURICE STREEL Professeur ordinaire honoraire, Collaborateur scientifique au Département de Géologie de l'Université de Liège Unité de re-cherche PPP (Paléobiogéologie, Paléopalynologie, Paléobotanique - Prof. E. Javaux), Allée du Six Août, Bat. B18 Sart Tilman, B-4000 LIEGE 1, Belgium, [email protected]

I'm more involved in Holocene research for the time being (See cimp.weebly.com. : Miscellanea : mem-


on CCS (which contains a little bit of palynology!). The book is published by Elsevier also. It’s called ‘Returning Carbon to Nature’ (http://www.amazon. co.uk/Returning-Carbon-Nature-Capture-Storage/dp/0124076718). A few papers on CCS were published between 2012 and 2014 (see publication list).

My most active area of research at the moment is the Middle Permian of Jordan. The fascinating se-quences along the eastern edge of the Dead Sea reveal superbly fossiliferous Permian rocks includ-ing famous plant fossil localities, but also high-yielding palynological rocks. These sequences may be important for understanding Middle Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary sequences in the Tethys. I will be going into the field again in April 2015. A few papers have been published, and a few more are on the way (see publications list).

PAUL STROTHER Weston Observatory of Boston College, Weston, Massachusetts US [email protected]

I am working with Charles Wellman and Wilson Taylor on Precambrian palynology of the None-such Shale (Michigan, USA) and the Torridonian (Scotland), both of which consist of lacustrine de-posits (1Ga). We have a couple of papers some-where between rejected and in revision, so no recent publications in that regard, but we expect to see some initial publications in later in 2015.

We are concerned primarily with trying to estab-lish the systematic affinities of unicellular protists and this is proving to be not easy. I also continue to work on early and middle Cambrian cryp-tospores from Laurentia and associated palynode-bris which may or may not have some relevance to the algal-embryophyte transition. I hope to have the first systematic work, including probably 3 new genera, published before the end of 2015.

With Marco Vecoli and John Beck, we have a pa-per on the palynology of the (Dapingian-Darriwilian) Kanosh Shale at Fossil Mountain (Utah, US) that should be out soon in the Journal of Paleontology. We are proposing some modifica-tions to the old suprageneric classification of the acritarchs, which the editors allowed us to publish in spite of reviewer negativity. We are trying to address some basic morphological issues within the sphaeromorphs by making a distinction be-tween wall structure, which includes the internal features of the wall that are still expressed in transmitted light, as opposed to wall sculpture which is applied to the outer surface of the wall. Also with Marco Vecoli and Al Traverse, I have published some systematic micropaleontology of

As Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho, USA, since 2010, not tenure-track position), she was working with Dr. Peter Isaacson. He stayed three months at the CICYTTP during his sabbatical time in 2011, and Audrey Warren (Dr. Peter Isaac-son´s mater student) spend 2014 july to work on Late Devonian and Lower Carboniferous palynoflo-ras from Montana (U.S.A.). A complete manuscript is currently in progress (di Pasquo et al. 2012; Isaac-son et al., 2013, 2014; Warren et al., 2014). Further contributions deal with Upper Palaeozoic palynoflo-ral changes in Bolivia and Argentina during the Gondwanaland glaciation, also in collaboration with Heidi Anderson, who defended her PhD in 2010. Some results were presented by di Pasquo and An-derson 2012.

She is still President of the ALPP (Asociación Latino-americana de Paleobotánica y Palinología) for a sec-ond period 2013-2016 (www.ufrgs.br/alpp, alpaleo-botanicapalinologia.blogspot.com).

More information at websites: http://www.cicyttp.org.ar/mdipasquo.htm http://palino.com.ar (username/password can be requested to [email protected] http://independent.academia.edu/MercedesDiPasquo https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mercedes_Di_Pasquo/

MIKE STEPHENSON British Geological Survey [email protected]

In the last few years I’ve been working on the Per-mo-Carboniferous of Pakistan and Yemen, including some wonderful fieldwork in the Salt Range of Paki-stan. This resulted in a paper in Gondwana Research (see list of Members publications).

I also continue to work in the Arabian Peninsula developing and refining stratigraphy in the Khuff Formation through palynology and Sr isotopes in brachiopods, working with colleagues in Italy and France.

I’ve branched out into shale gas working with col-leagues at Leicester University and PhD students. Palynology has a vital role in understanding the pri-mary prospectivity of shale.

I’m also about to have a book published on shale gas (March 2015). The book is called: ‘Shale Gas and Fracking: the Science behind the Controversy’ and it’s published by Elsevier (http://www.amazon.co. uk/Shale-Gas-Fracking-Science-Controversy-ebook/dp/B00TH0LWK6). The books looks at primary pro-spectivity of shale in relation to palynology, along with other topics.

I’m continuing to work on carbon capture and stor-age and recently published (Aug 2013) another book

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stacking of Carboniferous reservoir sands. Fur-thermore we developed an integrated workflow (incl. high resolution palynology) for source-rock characterization and sweet-spot prediction in unconventional reservoirs.

RAINER BROCKE Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Germany [email protected]

I am currently working on palynomorphs of the Mid-Devonian Chotec Event. In cooperation with Olda Fatka (Charles University, Prague), Eberhard Schindler (Senckenberg, Frankfurt), Richard Lindemann (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs) and Charles Ver Straeten (New York State Muse-um, Albany,) we submitted a paper dealing with material from the Chotec type section in the Prague Basin and coeval strata in the Appalachian Basin. Together with Walter Riegel (Göttingen), Volker Wilde (Frankfurt) and Volker Kneidl (Bad Kreuznach) we study palynomorphs from the Lower Devonian Hunsrückschiefer and its facies equivalents in Germany.

REED WICANDER Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859 USA [email protected]

My palynology research interests continue to in-volve mostly Ordovician and Devonian acritarchs. I am finishing a very long overdue paper with Clin-ton Foster on an Early Ordovician acritarch assem-blage from the Nambeet Formation, Canning Ba-sin, Western Australia. In terms Devonian acritarch research, I presented a paper on a Middle Devoni-an acritarch assemblage from the Arkona, Hungry Hollow, and Widder formations of Ontario, Canada at the 4th International Paleontological Congress last year. I also was the advisor for an undergradu-ate senior thesis by my student Joe Mohan titled “A new occurrence of scolecodonts (polychaete jaws) in the Middle Devonian Gravel Point For-mation of West Michigan.” He is currently revising his submitted manuscript to Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michi-gan.

I still continue to write geology textbooks with my coauthor, Stew Monroe. The 7th edition of “The Changing Earth: Exploring Geology and Evolution” and the 8th edition of “Historical Geology: Evolu-tion of Earth & Life Through Time” were published in late 2013 and 2014 respectively by Cengage Learning.

Lastly, I was awarded the AASP -The Palynological Society Distinguished Service Award for my many years of service to the society. As I said in my ac-

the cryptospores from the (Darriwilian) Hanadir Shale in Saudi Arabia which represent the perhaps the oldest cryptospores that have clear relations with younger material.

I have attached a photograph which is a montage of two different focal planes of what appears to be a chitinozoan. However, it comes from the Carbon Canyon Member of the Galeros Fm, which is older than 742 Ma. The textured surface is probably taph-onomic, the neck region does not look so chitinozo-anesque to me, but the spines and overall outline do. The age of this fossil would exclude a metazoan origin. The section this derives from are well known for vase-shaped microfossils (or, VSMs), so it ap-pears possible that this fossil might be related the testate amoebae.

THOMAS SERVAIS

Is a research director of the French CNRS, based at the University of Lille. Specialist of the acritarchs, he uses this fossil group for biostratigraphical, palaeoe-cological and palaeogeographical purposes. In the last years, he mainly discussed the importance of the group as an essential part of the marine phyto-plankton, triggering probably the Cambrian-Ordovician radiation, and in particular the ‘Ordovician plankton revolution.’ In the two last years, the publication on acritarchs included several papers with the PhD student Yong Lei (Wuhan, Chi-na and Lille, France) on Permian phytoplankton, and further work with Wang Wenhui (Nanjing University and Lille, France), Yan Kui and Li Jun (Nanjing Insti-tute of Geology and Palaeontology, China) about the Early-Middle Ordovician, including the revision of the taxa Rhopaliophora and Dactylofusa velifera, and the palaeobiogeography of Veryhachium. Addi-tional work, also with Stewart Molyneux, is in prepa-ration. Hendrik Nowak (PhD student) will finishing his work on the Fezouata Lagerstätte (Lower Ordovi-cian of Morocco) later this year. Thomas is currently a vice-president of the International Paleontological Association (IPA) and past-president of the Interna-tional Federation of Palynological Societies (IFPS).

THOMAS B. VAN HOOF TNO-Geobiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands [email protected]

At TNO we currently focus on integrated palaeoe-cological and stratigraphic studies in the palaeozo-ic by integrating quantitative palynology with a number of other techniques (e.g. phytoliths, stable isotopes). Current work-areas are the Middle-East (palaeozoic of Kuwait), eastern-Kentucky and of course the Netherlands. We recently finished a project in the Dutch offshore where we used an outcrop study in eastern Kentucky to develop a palaeoecological proxy for predicting the level of

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MEMBERS PUBLICATIONS

Editor’s Note: The following articles were sent by the bolded correspondent .

AGIĆ, H., MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M., YIN, L.M., 2015. Affinity, life cycle and intracellular complexity of organic-walled microfossils from the Mesoprotero-zoic of Shanxi, China. Journal of Paleontology, in press.

ANGELINI P., BRICCHI E., GIGANTE D., POPONESSI S., SPINA A.,VENANZONI R., 2014. Pollen morphol-ogy of some species of Amaranthaceae s. lat. com-mon in Italy. Flora Mediterranea 24: 247-272. ISSN: 1120-4052. doi: 10.7320/FlMedit24.247

ANGIOLINI, L. BERRA, F. STEPHENSON M.H., VACHARD D. 2014. Chapter 6. The Khuff foreshoal

Microphotos by Zélia Pereira representing pollen from the Upper Permian Karoo Matinde Formation of Mozambique(Striatopodocarpites cancella-tus and Guttulapollenites hannonicus)

ceptance of the award, I was speechless, humbled, and truly honoured to receive such recognition. I was also elected President of CIMP this past year and look forward to an active four year term as your President.

WALTER RIEGEL Senckenberg Museum and Research Institute at Frankfurt, Germany [email protected]

Although my main research focus has long shifted from the Devonian to the palynology of Eocene lignites of northern Germany, I still cannot quite keep my hands off Devonian spores and acritarchs. I am currently working with Rainer Brocke and Volker Wilde from the Senckenberg Museum and Research Institute at Frankfurt on spores and phy-toplankton from a newly described section of the famous Lower Devonian Hunsrück Shale. Despite the high degree of thermal alteration palyno-morphs from this section are sufficiently well pre-served to identify, mainly by means of SEM, a fair diversity of spores/cryptospores and, first for the Hunsrück Shale, of phytoplankton as well. Howev-er, picking individual specimens for SEM is rather painstaking and requires much time and patience that, perhaps, only retired professors like me may be able to afford. First results have been present-ed in a poster at the 9th EPPC at Padova and will be published shortly. After that we will continue with more classical sites of the "Hunsrückschiefer Fossillagerstätten". Further work with Rainer Brocke et al. including Middle Devonian palynolo-gy of the Eifel region is in preparation.

Since, in my view, the Late Paleozoic Phytoplank-ton Blackout continues well into the Triassic, I may point out a rare side track of my work together with Volker Wilde concerning phytoplankton from the Mid-Triassic Muschelkalk of the vicinity of Göttingen. Emphasis is placed there on the signifi-cance of small acritarchs and the need of SEM in their study. It was intended as a tribute to our department head to remind him that, despite his global network, interesting aspects of marine pri-mary productivity are waiting to be studied in his immediate backyard.

WENHUI WANG School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, No.163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing, P.R. China, Tel: +86 13951830656, [email protected]

Wenhui Wang is an assistant researcher at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering in Nan-jing University, China since 2013. She obtained her PhD degree of Paleontology and Stratigraphy in the same year after completing a thesis on the

Ordovician fossil groups from graptolitic shales. Wenhui got in touch with palynology (chitinozoans and acritarchs) when she was at the Research Unit of Paleontology during 2010 (Ghent University, Belgium) and Geosystem department (University of Lille 1), where she conducted an integrated study on early Ordovician chitinozoans, acritarchs and graptolites from South China.

At the beginning of 2014, she spent some time on some characteristic early Ordovician acritarchs which are of great biostratigraphical and palaeoge-ographical potential. Her closest research atten-tion is paid to a research project focusing on the geographic and biostratigraphic distribution of graptolitic shales in South China across the Ordovi-cian-Silurian boundary. Wenhui is in charge of check the chitinozoan and acritarch biostratigra-phy from boreholes. Meanwhile, Wenhui is also working on middle Ordovician chitinozoans and graptolites from both Anhui province and Qinghai Province in China, in hope of working out the bio-geographic relationship between the two different Terrence during middle Ordovician.

ZÉLIA PEREIRA LNEG-National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (Portuguese Geological Survey) [email protected]

I have been involved with several Devonian and Carboniferous projects in support of the mis-sion programs, mapping and contracts with com-panies at the LNEG Portuguese Geological Survey. During the upcoming year, I will continue working on the Devonian and Carboniferous palynostrati-graphic research and I am developing a recent challenging project with Paulo Fernandes in high resolution palynostratigraphy of the Permian Ka-roo of Mozambique, Africa (see the microphotos).



DI PASQUO, M.M. 2014. Unidades estratigráficas del Devónico del norte de Argentina. En: Léxico Estratigráfico de la Argentina. Sistema Devónico. Asociación Geológica Argentina y SEGEMAR. http://www.segemar.gov.ar/P_Lexico/index.htm. In press.

DI PASQUO, M.M., IANNUZZI, R. 2014. New palynological information from the Poti Formation (upper Visean) at the Roncador creek, Parnaíba Basin, northern Brazil. Boletín Geológico y Minero, 125 (4): 405-435.

DI PASQUO, M.M., SILVESTRI, L., 2014. Las colec-ciones de Palinología y Paleobotánica del Labora-torio de Paleopalinología y Paleobotánica del Cen-tro de Investigaciones Científicas y Transferencia de Tecnología a la Producción (CICYTTP), Entre Ríos, Argentina. Contribuição à RESCEPP “Rede Sul-americana de Coleções e Ensino em Paleobotâni-ca e Palinologia”, Boletín de la Asociación Latinoa-mericana de Paleobotánica y Palinología, volumen 14, 39-47. ISSN 0325-0121.

GARCÍA MURO, V.J., RUBINSTEIN, C. V., 2014. New biostratigraphic proposal for the Tucunuco Group (lower Palaeozoic), San Juan Precordillera, Argentina, based on marine and terrestrial palyno-morphs. Ameghiniana (in press).

GARCÍA MURO, V.J., RUBINSTEIN, C. V., STEE-MANS, P., 2014. Palynological record of the Siluri-an/Devonian boundary in the Argentine Precordil-lera, western Gondwana. Neues Jahrbuch für Ge-ologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 274 (1): 25-42.

GARCÍA MURO, V.J., RUBINSTEIN, C. V., STEE-MANS, P., 2014. Upper Silurian miospores from the Precordillera Basin, Argentina: biostrati-graphic, palaeonvironmental and palaeogeo-graphic implications. Geological Magazine, 151(3): 472-490.

GARCÍA-MURO, V.J., RUBINSTEIN, C.V., STEE-MANS, P., 2014. Palynological record of the Siluri-an/Devonian boundary in the Argentine Precordil-lera, western Gondwana. Neues Jahrbuch fûr Ge-ologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 274, 25-42.Geology, Geophysics and Environment, Vol. 38, №. 4, 503-504.

GERRIENNE, P., MEYER-BERTHAUD, B., YANG, N., STEEMANS, P., LI, C.-S., 2014. Planatophyton gen. nov., a late Early or Middle Devonian euphyllo-phyte from Xinjiang, North-West China. Rev. Pal-aeobot. Palynol. 208, 55-64.

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BALARINO, L., M., 2014. Permian palynostratigraphy of the Claromec Basin, Argentina. Alcheringa, 38,3, 317-337.

BAUERT, G., NOLVAK, J., BAUERT, H., 2014. Chi-tinozoan biostratigraphy in the Haljala Regional Stage, Upper Ordovician: a high-resolution approach from NE Estonia. GFF, 136, 1, 26-29.

BREUER, P., MILLER, M.A., LESZCZYŃSKI, S., STEEMANS, P., 2015. Climate-controlled palynofacies and miospore stratig-raphy of the Jauf Formation, Lower Devonian, northern Saudi Arabia. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 212, 187-213.

BURGESS, I.C., HASLAM, R.B., HOLLIDAY, D.W., KEARSEY, T., MILLWARD, D., OWENS, B., PATTISON, J., TURNER, R., TURNER, D., WATERS, C.N. 2014. Discussion on Lower Palaeozoic inlier in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, UK : Proceedings. Vol. 59, 2013, pp. 173 – 176. Proceedings Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 60, p. 141.

CHALLANDS, T. J., VANDENBROUCKE, T. R. A., ARM-STRONG, H. A., et al. 2014. Chitinozoan biozonation in the upper Katian and Hirnantian of the Welsh Basin, UK. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 210, 1-21.

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LE HÉRISSÉ, A., MOLYNEUX, S. AND MILLER, M., 2014. Late Ordovician to early Silurian acritarchs from the Qusaiba-1 shallow core hole, central Sau-di Arabia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 212 (2015) 22-59.

LEI, Y., SERVAIS, T., FENG, Q., et al. 2013. Latest Permian acritarchs from South China and the Mi-crhystridium/Veryhachium complex revisited. PALYNOLOGY, 37, 325-344.

LIANG, Y., TANG, P., ZHAN, R., et al., 2014. New data of early Late Ordovician chitinozoans from the Miaopo Formation at Jieling, Yichang, central China. GFF, 136, 1, 162-166.

LOPES, G., PEREIRA, Z., FERNANDES, P., MAR-QUES, J., VASCONCELOS, L. (2015; in press). Paly-nostratigraphy of the mid Permian Lower Karoo succession in the Moatize-Minjova Coal Basin, Mozambique - A study of boreholes ETA 65 and ETA 72. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.

LOPES, G., PEREIRA, Z., WICANDER, R., FERNAN-DES, P., MATOS, J., ROSA, D., OLIVEIRA, J.T. (2014). The significance of the reworked palynomorphs (Middle Cambrian to Tournaisian) in the Viséan Toca da Moura Complex (South Portugal). Implica-tions for the geodynamic evolution of Ossa More-na Zone. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 200, 1-23.

MAMONTOV D.A., ORLOVA O.A. 2012. Interpre-tation of the results of the palynological research of the Visean deposits from the borehole 1P/A, Kaluga region (Russia). Mineralia Slovaca. Geovest-nik. 2011. Vol. 43, №. 1, 68–69.

MAMONTOV D.A., ORLOVA O.A. 2012. Palynostra-tigraphy of the upper Visean deposits from the mstikhino quarry of the Kaluga region, Russia.

MAMONTOV D.A., ORLOVA O.A. 2014. Palynologi-cal characteristics of the upper Visean deposits from the Mstikhino quarry, Kaluga region // Mos-cow University Geology Bulletin. 2014. Vol. 69, № 1. P. 28–35. DOI: 10.3103/S0145875214010049

MEHLQVIST, K., LARSSON, KENT., VAJDA, V., 2014. Linking upper Silurian terrestrial and marine suc-cessions Palynological study from Sickle, Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 202, 1-14.

MOCZYDLOWSKA, M. 2015. Algal affinities of the Ediacaran and Cambrian organic-walled microfos-sils with internal reproductive bodies: Tanarium and other morphotypes. Palynology, in press.

MOCZYDLOWSKA, M., WESTALL, F., FOUCHER, F., 2014. Microstructure and biogeochemistry of the organically preserved Ediacaran metazoan Sabel-lidites. Journal of Paleontology, 88 (2), p.224–239.

Mountains, Zagros Ranges, south-eastern Iran. Bul-letin of Geosciences 89(4), 679–706.

GHIENNE, J.F., DESROCHERS, A. T.R.A. VANDEN-BROUCKE, ACHAB, A. ASSELIN, E. DABARD, M.P. , FARLEY, C., LOI, A., PARIS, F., WICKSON, S., WEISER, J. 2014. A Cenozoic-style senario for the end-Ordovician glaciation. Nature communication. DOI. 1.1038/ncomms5485.

GRAHAM, L., LEWIS, L., TAYLOR, W., WELLMAN, C. H., COOK, M. 2014. Early terrestrialization: transi-tion from algal to bryophyte grade. 9-28. In: Hanson & Rice (eds) Photosynthesis of bryophytes and early land plants.

HERBOSCH, A., VERNIERS, J. 2014. Stratigraphy of the Lower Palaeozoic of the Brabant Massif, Bel-gium. Part II: The Middle Ordovician to lowest Siluri-an of the Rebecq Group. Geologica Belgica 17(2), 115-136.

HERBOSCH, A., VERNIERS, J. 2015. Field Guide to the geology of the Brabant Massif: the outcrops of the Dyle and Senne Basins. Memoirs of the Geologi-cal Survey of Belgium (Royal Belgian Institute of Nat-ural Sciences), 62 – 2015, 1-40 pp., ISSN 0408-9510

HINTS, O., PARIS, F., AL-HAJRI, S. 2014. Late Ordovi-cian scoleocodonts from the Qusaiba-1 core hole, central Saudi Arabia, and their paleogeographical affinities. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 212 : 185-96. (2015)

KALJO, D., GRYTSENKO, V., KALLASTE, T., et al., 2014. Upper Silurian stratigraphy of Podolia revisit-ed: carbon isotopes, bentonites and biostratigraphy GFF, 136, 1, 136-141.

KOCH, L., SERVAIS, T., MALETZ, J., VANDEN-BROUCKE, T.R.A., VERNIERS, J.2014. The Ordovician of the Ebbe Inlier (Rhenish Massif, western Germa-ny) revisited. GFF, 136, 1, 142-146.

KOENITZER, SVEN F. MELANIE J. LENG, SARAH J. DA-VIES AND MICHAEL H. STEPHENSON. M., 2012. An Assessment of Geochemical Preparation Methods prior to Organic Carbon Concentration and Carbon Isotope Ratio Analyses on Carboniferous Mud-stones. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, volume 13, number 1, pp 1-12.

KÖNITZER SVEN F., SARAH J. DAVIES, MICHAEL H. STEPHENSON, AND MELANIE J. LENG. 2014. Deposi-tional controls on mudstone lithofacies in a basinal setting: implications for the delivery of sedimentary organic matter Journal of Sedimentary Research, 84: 198-214; doi:10.2110/jsr.2014.18

KUI, Y., JUN, L., FANWEI M., 2014. An Early-Middle Ordovician acritarch and prasinophyte assemblage from the Meitan Formation in Qijiang, Chongqing, South China. GFF , 136 , 1, 298-302.

















PERRIER,V., SIVETER, D.J., WILLIAMS, M., STRUSZ, D.L., STEEMAN, T., VANDENBROUCKE, T.R.A., VER-NIERS, J. 2014. Myodocope ostracods from the Silurian of Australia. Journal of Systematic Palae-ontology.http:dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2014.948506

PRESTIANNI, C., RUSTAN, J. J., BALSEIRO, D., VAC-CARI, E., STERREN, A. F., STEEMANS, P., RUBIN-STEIN, C., ASTINI, R. A., 2014. Early seed plants from western Gondwana: Palaeobiogeographical and ecological implications based on Tournaisian (Lower Carboniferous) records from Argentina. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecolo-gy (in press).

PRESTIANNI, C., RUSTÁN, J.J., BALSEIRO, D., VAC-CARI, E., STERREN, A.F., STEEMANS, P., RUBIN-STEIN, C., ASTINI, R.A., 2015. Early seed plants from Western Gondwana: Paleobiogeographical and ecological implications based on Tournaisian (Lower Carboniferous) records from Argentina. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 417, 210-219.

RAEVSKAYA, E., DRONOV, A., 2014. New data on acritarchs from the Upper Ordovician of the Tun-gus basin, Siberian Platform. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 63, 4, 300-304.

RUBINSTEIN, C.V., GARCIA MURO, V.J., STEEMANS, P., 2014. Upper Silurian miospores from the Pre-cordillera Basin, Argentina: biostratigraphic, palae-onvironmental and palaeogeographic implications. Geol. Mag. 151, 472-490.

SERVAIS, T., LI, J., MOLYNEUX, S.G., RUBINSTEIN, C.V., VECOLI, M., YAN, K., 2014. The palaeobiogeo-graphical spread of the acritarch Veryhachium in the Early and Middle Ordovician and its impact on biostratigraphical applications. GFF 136, 234-237.

SERVAIS, T., LI, J., MOLYNEUX, S.G., RUBINSTEIN, C.V., VECOLI, M., YAN K., 2014. The palaeobiogeo-graphical spreading of the acritarch Veryhachium in the Early and Middle Ordovician and its impact on biostratigraphical applications. GFF , 136(1): 234-237.

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SHU WANG, CERI J VINCENT, MICHAEL H STEPHEN-SON, RONGSHU ZENG. 2014. Assessment of stor-age capacity for CO2 in saline aquifers near hydro-carbon fields, northern Songliao Basin, China. Greenhouse Gas Science and Technology 3, 1–18.

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MOLYNEUX, S. G., DELABROYE, A., WICANDER, R., SERVAIS, T. 2013. Biogeography of early to mid Palaeozoic (Cambrian – Devonian) marine phyto-plankton. In Harper, D. A. T. & Servais, T. (eds.), Early Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeogra-phy. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 38: 365-397.

ORLOVA O., MAMONTOV D., SNIGIREVSKY S. 2014. Late Visean (Mississippian) vegetation of the north-western part of Russia according to palaeobotanical and palynological data // Historical Biology: An In-ternational Journal of Paleobiology. 2014. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2014.899117

ORLOVA O.A., MAMONTOV D.A. 2013. Early Car-boniferous vegetation of the north-western part of European Russia // Proceedings of the II Agora Pale-obotanica Meeting 9-13/7/2013, Ariño (Teruel, Spain). A Congress in the Countryside. Agora Paleo-botanica, Zaragoza, 2013. P. 34–35.

ORLOVA O.A., MAMONTOV D.A., KHOLOPOVA A.L. 2013. Dispersal megaspores from the Lower Visean deposits of the Kaluga region (borehole 1P/A Ale-ksandrovskaya) // Moscow University Geology Bulle-tin. 2013. V. 68. № 6. PP. 360–367.

OSHURKOVA M.V. 2014. Palynostratigraphy of the Kazakhstan Province of the Carboniferous Eurameri-can Region // News of paleontology and stratigra-phy. 2014. Vol. 19. S. 38-75. Supplement to the jour-nal Geology and Geophysics, v. 55.

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PARIS, F., MILLER, M., AL-HAJRI, S. ZALASIEWICZ, J., 2014. Early Silurian chitinozoans from the Qusaiba type area; North Central Saudi Arabia. Rev. Palaeo-bot. Palynol. 212 : 127-186. (2015)

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SPINA A., CIRILLI S., UTTING J., JANSONIUS J., 2014. Palynology of the Permian and Triassic of the Tesero and Bulla sections (Western Dolomites, Italy) and consideration about the enigmatic spe-cies Reduviasporonites chalastus. Review of Palae-obotany and Palynology. http:/dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.10.003 1.93 Impact Factor.

SOL NOETINGER, DI PASQUO, 2013. New palynolo-gical information from the subsurface Copo, Cabu-ré and Rincón formations (upper Lochkovian – Em-sian), Salta Province, Argentina. Alcheringa- An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 04/2013; 44:107-121.

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BRICCHI E., GIGANTE D., MINCIGRUCCI G., POPO-NESSI S., SPINA A., VENANZONI R., 2014. Compar-ative pollen morphology of some Amaranthaceae. EPPC, Padova 26-31 Agosto 2014.

BROCKE, R., KNEIDL, V., WILDE, V., RIEGEL, W., 2014. New palynological evidence regarding age and environment of the "Hunsrückschiefer", Lower Devonian, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany. 9th EPPC Padova, abstract book:32.

CIRILLI S., MARTINI, R. , TEKIN, K., SPINA A., 2014. Sedimentology and palynofacies of the Triassic Gokdere-type pelagic succession in western Tau-rides (Southern Turkey): implications for palaeoge-ographic reconstruction. Evolution of the Black Sea to Central Asia Tethyan Realm since the Late Paleozoic, Volume: DARIUS Final Symposium: Evo-lution of the Black Sea to Central Asia Tethyan Realm since the Late Paleozoic, 48-49.

CIRILLI S., MARTINI, R., TEKIN, K., SPINA A., 2014. Sedimentology and palynofacies of the Triassic Gokdere-type pelagic succession in western Tau-rides (Southern Turkey): implications for palaeoge-ographic reconstruction. ISC 2014, 19th Interna-tional Sedimentological Congress, 18-22 august 2014, Geneva, Switzerland, Abstract Volume, 152.

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DE LA PUENTE, G. S., 2014. Chitinozoans through-out the Ordovician/Silurian boundary in north-western Argentina, Western Gondwana. The 47th American Association of Stratigraphic Palynolo-gists (AASP)- The Palynological Society (TPS) Annu-al Meeting - 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Abstract Volume, p. 916.

DI PASQUO MERCEDES, SOL NOETINGER, DANIEL STARCK, GEORGE GRADER, PETER ISAACSON, EDUARDO MOREL, 2013. Devonian plants - Ha-plostigma Seward- of Argentina and Bolivia: New records, palynoassemblages, and ages. XXIII Con-

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YONG, L., SERVAIS, T., FENG, Q., 2013.The diversity of the Permian phytoplankton. Review of Palaeobo-tany and Palynology, 198,145-161.

ZENG, R., VINCENT, C., TIAN, X., STEPHENSON, M. H., XU, S. W. W. 2013. New potential carbon emis-sion reduction enterprises in China: deep geological storage of CO2 emitted through industrial usage of coal in China. Greenhouse Gases Science and tech-nology DOI 10.1002/ghg

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AGIĆ, H., JUÁREZ-RIVERA, M., KERRIGAN, Z., WARD, L. PETRYSHYN, V.A., CORSETTI, F.A., TRIPATI, A. 2014. Lateral growth of the late Pleistocene stro-matolites from Walker Lake (Nevada) and proxy constraints on environmental change. In Abstracts of the 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia (19-22nd October). (poster)

AGIĆ, H., MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M., CANFIELD, D., 2014. Cyst and operculum formation in the Cambrian-Ordovician galeate acritarchs from Estonia: implica-tions for algal phylogeny. Abstract Volume. 4th Inter-national Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, Ar-gentina, 28 September – 3 October 2014, poster.

AGIĆ, H., MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M., YIN, L., 2014. Mor-phology of the Mesoproterozoic eukaryotic micro-fossils as a reflection of their intracellular complexi-ty. Abstract Volume. 4th International Palaeontologi-cal Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, 28 September – 3 October 2014, p. 256.

AGIĆ, H., MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M., YIN, L., 2014. New eukaryotic microfossils from the Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group, China. In Abstracts of the Palaeonto-logical Association Annual Meeting, Leeds, UK, 16-19th December 2014. (poster)

AMBERG, C., COLLART, T., SALENBIEN, W., VANDEN-BROUCKE, T., EGGER, L., MUNNECKE, A.], NIELSEN, A., HAMMER, Ø., VERNIERS, J.. 2013. The nature of Ordovician limestone–mudstone alternations in the Oslo-Asker area (Norway): Primary or diagenetic rhythms? Abstract of the 3rd IGCP 591 Annual Meeting, Lund, Sweden, 9–19 June 2013, p 25-26.


gress (Mendoza 28/9-3/10 de 2014). Abstracts.

DI PASQUO, MERCEDES; HERNÁNDEZ-LÁSCARES, DELFINO, 2013. Primeros Registros Palinológicos de las Formaciones Matzitzi y Zapotitlán, regio-nes de Coatepec y Teotitlán, Estados de Oaxaca y Puebla, México. VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología y el XIII Congreso Nacional de Paleontología (Guanajuato, 23-27 de septiembre de 2013), Abstracts: 45.

ERTUG, K., VECOLI, M., BREUER, P., CESARI, C., BOUKHAMSIN, H., 2014. Late to Middle Rhuddani-an (early Silurian) chitinozoans from the Qusaiba Member of the Qalibah Formation of Central Saudi Arabia and their application to hydrocarbon explo-ration and global correlation. Abstract Volume, 4th International Palaeontological Congress, September 28 - October 3, 2014, Mendoza, Argentina, p. 892.

GARCÍA MURO, V. J. RUBINSTEIN, C. V., STEE-MANS, P., 2014. First palynological record of the Silurian/Devonian boundary in the San Juan Pre-cordillera, Argentina. The 47th American Associa-tion of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP)- The Pal-ynological Society (TPS) Annual Meeting - 4th In-ternational Palaeontological Congress, Abstract Volume, p. 919.

GARCÍA MURO, V. J., 2014. Palynology of the Silu-rian-Early Devonian in the Precordillera, San Juan Province: biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoenvironments. The 47th American As-sociation of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP)- The Palynological Society (TPS) Annual Meeting - 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Abstract Volume, p. 893.

HATIN, T., LALONDE, S., LE HÉRISSÉ, A., De La Ro-cha, C., Crosta, X., 2014. Towards the use of sedi-mentary silicon isotope compositions for tracing primary productivity on the West African margin over the last 500ky: Methodological developments for the extraction and isotopic analysis of biogenic silica complex sediments. Colloque SF Isotrace, Brest, 8-12 Septembre, Poster.

ISAACSON P.E., M. DI PASQUO, G. GRADER, H. ANDERSON, 2014. Late Paleozoic carbonates and coeval glacial deposits in Bolivia: correlations across a significant paleoclimatic gradient. AAPG/SEPM HEDBERG RESEARCH CONFERENCE “Latitudinal Controls on Stratigraphic Models and Sedimentary Concepts” (28/10-01/10-2014, Banff, Alberta, Canada), Extended abstracts (4 pages).

ISAACSON, P.E., DI PASQUO, M.M., GRADER, G.W., DÍAZ-MARTÍNEZ, E., ANDERSON, H., 2013. Transition from cold climate endemic faunas and glaciation to glaciation-proxy carbonates (Devonian-Permian), Central Andes. GSA Annual

gresso Brasileiro de Paleontologia (Gramado 13-18/10), Abstracts: 173.

DI PASQUO, M.M. 2013. Palinoestratigrafía del De-vónico en el área de Yesera, Departamento de Tari-ja, Bolivia. XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Paleobotânica e Palinologia (Río de Janeiro), Anais do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, livro 49 (Resúmenes): 60.

DI PASQUO, M.M., ANDERSON, H., 2012. Palynolog-ical record of Devonian and Pennsylvanian units in the Espejos Range, western Santa Cruz de la Sierra, central Bolivia. 45 Annual Meeting of AASP (The Palynological Society) and CIMP (Commission Inter-nationale de la Microflore du Paléozoïque Subcom-missions), (Lexington, Kentucky 2012 July 21st-25th). Abstracts: 19-20.

DI PASQUO, M.M., GRADER, G., ISAACSON, P., IAN-NUZZI, R., SOUZA, P.A., DÍAZ-MARTÍNEZ, E., 2013. Early appearance of Lueckisporites virkkiae in South America and global Lower Permian biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance. XIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Paleobotânica e Palinologia (Río de Janeiro), Anais do Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro, livro 49 (Resúmenes): 61.

DI PASQUO, M.M., GRADER, G.W., 2012. Palyno-stratigraphy and correlation of the Cisuralian Vitiac-ua Formation in southern Bolivia. XV Simposio Ar-gentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología (Corrientes, 11-13 de Julio de 2012). AMEGHINIANA 49 (4) Suplemento 2012–Resúmenes: R124.

DI PASQUO, M.M., GRADER, G.W., BREEDLOVESTROUT, R., 2012. Palynology and paleoenvironment of the Cisuralian Vitiacua Formation in southern Bolivia. 45 Annual Meeting of AASP (The Palynological Society) and CIMP (Commission Internationale de la Micro-flore du Paléozoïque Subcommissions), (Lexington, Kentucky 2012 July 21st-25th). Abstracts: 22-23.

DI PASQUO, M.M., GRADER, G.W., ISAACSON, P., WOOD, G., 2014. Palynozonation of the Permian of Bolivia and Peru. 4th International Palaeontological Congress (Mendoza 28/9-3/10 de 2014). Abstracts.

DI PASQUO, M.M., GRADER, G.W., ISAACSON, P.E., 2012. Palynology of the Devonian-Mississippian transition in western Montana: Three Forks, Sap-pington and Bakken formations. 45 Annual Meeting of AASP (The Palynological Society) and CIMP (Commission Internationale de la Microflore du Paléozoïque Subcommissions), (Lexington, Kentucky 2012 July 21st-25th). Abstracts: 21-22.

DI PASQUO, M.M., SOUZA, P.A., 2014. New findings of the Lueckisporites virkkiae Zone (late Cisuralian-Guadalupian) in the Serra do Rio do Rastro and neighboring localities (Paraná Basin) in Santa Catari-na, Brazil. 4th International Palaeontological Con-



Region, Ossa Morena Zone, Portugal. 9th Europe-an paleobotany and Palynology Conference. Pad-ua.

LUQUE, J., AGIĆ, H., ANDERSON, E.P., DAHL, R., DONOVAN, M., FIELD, D.J., FRONIMOS, J.A., HODGES, M., MOTZ, G.J., RONEY, R., SAUPE, E.E., SHEFFIELD, S., TACKETT, L., TASHMAN, J.N., WAWRZYNIAK, Z. 2015. Diversity in all its forms: IPC4 as an invaluable opportunity for STEPPE grant recipients. GSA Today, 5:24-25.

MAMONTOV D.A., ORLOVA O.A. 2011. Palynologi-cal characteristic of the Upper Visean deposits from the Tovarkovo quarry (Kaluga region) // Pro-ceedings of the International Conference "Biostra-tigraphy, Paleogeography and Events in Devonian and Lower Carboniferous". Novosibirsk. 2011. PP. 96–98.

MAMONTOV D.A., ORLOVA O.A. 2011. Results of the palynological study of Visean deposits from the borehole 1P\A Aleksandrovskaya, Aleksan-drovka village, Kaluga region // Proceedings of the XIII Russian Palynological Conference with interna-tional participation “Problems of modern palynol-ogy”. V. 1. Syktyvkar. 2011. PP. 169–172.

MAMONTOV D.A., ORLOVA O.A. 2012. The first results of palynological research of the Upper Visean deposits from the Bogorodickiy quarry, Tula region. PALEOSTRAT-2012. Annual meeting (seminar), sec-tion of paleontology of the Moscow Society of Natu-ralists and Moscow Branch of the Paleontological Society of RAS. Moscow, 2012. PP. 38–39.

MAMONTOV D.A., ORLOVAO.A., ANIKEEVA E.V.,2012. Comparative analysis of the Late Visean vegetation based on palynological data (southern wing of Moscow Syneclise, Russia)// Proceedings of the XIII. International Conference of Young Ge-ologists. Proceedings. Herl’any 2012, p 18-20.

MATOS, J.X., PEREIRA, Z., OLIVEIRA, J.T., ROSA, C. (2014). High resolution stratigraphy of the Phyllite-Quartzite Group in the northwest region of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, Portugal.Actas do IX Congresso Nacional de Geologia/2º Congresso de Geologia dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal, 8p.

MATSUMURA WILLIAN M.K., MERCEDES DI PAS-QUO, ROBERTO IANNUZZI, SOL NOETINGER, ELVIO BOSETTI, 2014. Devonian flora succession in Gond-wana: State of art in South America. 4th Interna-tional Palaeontological Congress (Mendoza 28/9-3/10 de 2014). Abstracts.

MEHLQVIST, K., VAJDA, V., STEEMANS, P., 2014. First evidence of Devonian strata in sweden - Paly-nological study of the Övedskloster drillcores 1

Meeting in Denver: 125th Anniversary of GSA (27-30 October 2013), Abstracts: #227653 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013AM/top/papers).

ISAACSON, PETER E., GRADER, GEORGE W. JR, DI PASQUO, MERCEDES M., WARREN, AUDREY M., RODRIGUEZ, AARON P., 2014. Correlating Sappington Formation sequences intrabasinally and as proxies to Late Devonian Glaciation: Utilizing Palynostratigraphy. GSA 2014 Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section Meeting. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 46, No. 5 (18-21 mayo 2014 Bozeman, Montana, USA).

KOCH, L., SERVAIS, T., MALETZ, J., VANDENBROUCKE, T., VERNIERS, J. 2013. The Ordovician of the Sauer-land (western Germany) revisited. Abstract of the 3rd IGCP 591 Annual Meeting, Lund, Sweden, 9–19 June 2013, p. 159-160.

LE HERISSE, A., STEEMANS, P., WELLMAN, CH., Vecoli, M., 2014. Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) elements of primitive vegetation, marine palyno-morphs and problematic microfossils from the Saq/Qasim transitional beds in core QSIM-801, central Saudi Arabia: discussion with eustatic and climatic events. Abstracts, 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference (EPPC), Padova, Italy, August 26-31, 2014, 1 p.

LOOY, C., STEVENSON, R., VAN HOOF, T., MANDER, L., 2014. Evidence for coal forest refugia in the sea-sonally dry Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands of the Illinois Basin, USA. PeerJ 2: e630. DOI 10.7717/peerj.630

LOPES, G., PEREIRA, Z., FERNANDES, P., MARQUES, J., 2014. Datação Palinológica dos Sedimentos Gla-ciogénicos da Formação (Tilítica) de Vúzi, sondagem ETA 65, Bacia Carbonífera de Moatize-Minjova, Mo-çambique – Resultados Preliminares. Actas do IX Congresso Nacional de Geologia/2º Congresso de Geologia dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal, 7p.

LOPES, G., PEREIRA, Z., FERNANDES, P., MARQUES, J., 2014. Palinologia da formacao (Tilitica) de Vuzi, Bacia Carbonifera Moatize-Minjova. Abstracts of the II Mozambique Geological Congress and XII Portu-guese Speaking Language Geochemical Congress, Maputo, Mozambique.

LOPES, G., PEREIRA, Z., FERNANDES, P., MARQUES, J., 2014. Palynostratigraphic study of Lower Karoo rocks in the Moatize-Minjova Coal Basin – Prelimi-nary results. 9th European paleobotany and Palynol-ogy Conference. Padua.

LOPES, G., PEREIRA, Z., FERNANDES, P., PIÇARRA, J.M., 2014. New Ordovician palynostratigraphic data of the Phyllodocites Shales Formation, Barrancos


tuguese Speaking Language Geochemical Con-gress, Maputo, Mozambique.

PEREIRA, Z., LOPES, G., FERNANDES, P., MAR-QUES, J., 2014. Palinoestratigrafia da Sondagem ETA 72 da Bacia Carbonífera de Moatize-Minjova, Província de Tete, Moçambique. L. Vasconcelos (Ed.): Livro de Resumos, 2º Congresso Nacional de Geologia e 12º Congresso de Geoquímica dos Paí-ses de Língua Portuguesa, 67-71.

PRESTIANNI C., RUSTÁN, J. J., BALSEIRO, D., VAC-CARI, N. E., STERREN, A. F., STEEMANS, P., RU-BINSTEIN, C. V., ASTINI, R. A, 2014. The earliest seed plants from Gondwana: paleobiogeographical and evolutionary implications based on Tournaisi-an (Mississippian) records from Argentina. 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Abstract Volume, p. 599.

RIEGEL, W., WIESE, F., ARP, G., WILDE, V., 2014. Microphytoplankton from the Jena Formation (Lower Muschelkalk Subgroup, Anisian) in the for-estry quarry at Herberhausen near Göttingen (Germany). In: Wiese, F., Reich, M., Arp, G. (eds.)"Spongy, slimy, cosy & more...". Commemo-rative volume in celebration of the 60th birthday of Joachim Reitner. Göttingen Contributions to Geoscience 77: 63-76. Available as Open Access version through the Online Catalogue of the State and University Library of Göttingen: http://www. sub.uni-goettingen.de

RUBINSTEIN, C. V., GARCÍA MURO, V. J., STEE-MANS, P., 2014. Origin and evolution of the early land plants in Argentina and South America through the palynological record. Symposium “The invasion of land: when and where?”: 4th Interna-tional Palaeontological Congress, Abstract Volume, p. 57.

RUBINSTEIN, C. V., GARCÍA MURO, V. J., 2014. The evolution of early Palaeozoic marine phyto-plankton at the active continental margin of west-ern Gondwana (Argentina). Symposium “Evolution of photosynthesizing organisms- from microbiota to plants”: 4th International Palaeontological Con-gress, Abstract Volume, p. 259.

RUBINSTEIN, C.V., GARCIA MURO, V.J., STEEMANS, P., 2014. Origin and evolution of the Early land plants in Argentina and South America through the palynological record, 4th International palaeontological congress. Mendoza, September 28 - October 3.

SANCHEZ E.A.M, GREY K., MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M., DO CARMO D.A., CAMINHA, S., ALVARENGA, C.J. 2014. New record of organic-walled microfossils from Paranoá Group, Mesoproterozoic, Brazil:

and 2 from Skåne, Nordic Geological Winter-meeting. Lund, Sweden.

MERRELL, M., BREUER, P., ERTUG, K., VECOLI, M., WOOD, G., 2014. Late Cambrian acritarchs from the subsurface Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia. GEO 2014, 11th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, March 9-12, 2014, Manama, Bahrain.

MILANA JUAN PABLO, MERCEDES DI PASQUO, EFRAÍN FAJARDO, MARCOS MILANA, 2014. Primeros datos bioestratigráficos y glaciales de las formacio-nes El Planchón y Churupati (Mississippiano), Pre-cordillera occidental de San Juan. XIV Reunión Ar-gentina de Sedimentología (Puerto Madryn, Chubut, 1-5 de Septiembre de 2014), Extended Abstracts (2 páginas).

MILANA JUAN PABLO, MERCEDES DI PASQUO, VIC-TORIA VALDEZ BUSO, 2014. Nuevos datos sobre el límite Carbonífero - Pérmico en la sección Río del Peñón, precordillera riojana. XIV Reunión Argentina de Sedimentología (Puerto Madryn, Chubut, 1-5 de Septiembre de 2014), Extended Abstracts (2 páginas).

MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M. , 2014. Biological affinities of the Ediacaran and Cambrian organically preserved microfossils with internal reproductive bodies. 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, Padova, Italy, 26-31 August 2014, 172.

MOCZYDŁOWSKA, M., AGIĆ, H., 2014. Timing of the origin of plastid and evolutionary history of Chloro-phyta by microfossil record. Abstract Volume. 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, 28 September – 3 October 2014, p. 258.

NOETINGER SOL, MERCEDES DI PASQUO, 2014. Eife-lian-Givetian diversity trends in palynofloras of north-western Argentina. 4th International Palaeontological Congress (Mendoza 28/9-3/10 de 2014). Abstracts.

PARIS, F., GHIENNE, J.F., VANDENBROUCKE, T., DEYNOUX, M., In prep. Latest Ordovician- earliest Silurian chitinozoans from southeastern Maurita-nia. Special issue of the French Académie des scienc-es dealing with the late Ordovician glaciation.

PARIS, F., VERNIERS, J., MILLER, M., AL-HAJRI, S., WELLMAN, C.H., 2013. Biostratigraphy of Late Ordo-vician- earliest Silurian chitinozoans from the Qusaiba-1 core hole, (North Central Saudi Arabia) and its relation to the Hirnantian glaciation. Abstract for the AASP 46th Annual Meeting, jointly with Di-no10, CAP, CIMP, and NAMS; San Francisco 20 - 23 October 2013.

PEREIRA, Z., LOPES, G., FERNANDES, P., MARQUES, J., 2014. Palinoestratigrafia da sondagem ETA 72 da Bacia Carbonifera de Moatize-Minjova. Abstracts of the II Mozambique Geological Congress and XII Por-

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accessing age and evolution of eukaryotes. Abstract Volume. 4th International Palaeontological Con-gress, Mendoza, Argentina, 28 September – 3 Octo-ber 2014, p. 260.

SARDAR ABADI, M., KULAGINA, E.I., DA SILVA, A.C., MOSSADEGH, H., STEEMANS, P., BOULVAIN, F., 2014. Depositional facies and regional paleogeogra-phy of the Lower Carboniferous Mobarak For-mation in the Alboroz Basin, Northern Iran, Central European meeting of sedimentary geology. Olo-mouc, Czech Republic: University of Olomouc.

SPINA A., CIRILLI S., RETTORI R., ARAINASAB M., HAMDI B., KANI A., 2014. The response of the plant kingdom to the Late Ordovician climatic changing and related mass extinction; an example from the Zagros Basin (Southern Iran). Rendiconti della Socie-tà Geologica Italiana, Suppl. 1 al n. 31, 63.

SPINA A., CIRILLI S., STEPHENSON M., ARIA-NASAB M.R., SABBAGHIYAN H., SABOURI J., RETTORI R., 2014. Palynology of the Permian Faraghan For-mation in the Zagros Basin, Southern Iran. EPPC, Padova 26-31 Agosto 2014.

STROTHER, P.K., TAYOLOR, W.A., Vecoli, M., 2014. Sporoderm evolution in cryptospores from the Darriwilian of Saudi Arabia. Abstracts, 9th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference (EPPC), Padova, Italy, August 26-31, 2014, 1 p.

STROTHER, P.K., VECOLI, M., TRAVERSE, A., 2014. Cryptospores from the Hanadir Shale Member of the Qasim Formation of Saudi Arabia: a Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) base for the land plant spore record. GEO 2014, 11th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, March 9-12, 2014, Ma-nama, Bahrain.

THUSU, B., PARIS, F., RASUL, S., MEINHOLD, G., BOOTH,G. MACHADO, G., ABUTARRUMA, Y., AN-DREW WHITHAM, A. 2014. The enigmatic palyno-morph Tortotubus protuberans from the latest Or-dovician–early Silurian: a possible land-derived plant fragment in nearshore depositional environ-ments. International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza. Abstract.

VALDÉZ V., M. DI PASQUO, J.P MILANA, B. KNE-LLER, P. PAIM, 2014. Palynoassemblages in the Sie-rra de Maz area, La Rioja Province, Argentina: an older age for the base of the Guandacol Formation. XIV Reunión Argentina de Sedimentología (Puerto Madryn, Chubut, 1-5 de Septiembre de 2014), Ex-tended Abstracts (2 páginas).

VALDÉZ VICTORIA, Mercedes Di Pasquo, Benjamin Kneller, 2013. Palinoasociaciones carboníferas en la Formación Guandacol en el área de Cerro Bola, La Rioja, Argentina. XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Pa-

leontologia (Gramado 13-18/10), Abstracts: 40

VALDÉZ, VICTORIA, PAULO S.G. PAIM, PAULO A. SOUZA, MERCEDES DI PASQUO, 2013. Carbonife-rous deglacial record in Paraná Basin (Brazil) and its analog in Paganzo Basin (Argentina): a compari-son between Pennsylvanian and Permian sections. 6th Latin American Congress of Sedimentology, São Paulo, Brazil (July 14th-17th, 2013).

VERNIERS, J., KLEFFNER, M., VAN DE MOORTEL, I., STEEMAN, T., MORTIER, J., VANDENBROUCKE, T., CRAMER, B., BRETT, C. 2014. New Telychian and Sheinwoodian chitinozoans from Kentucky and Ohio, USA. Abstract for a talk at Session S38. What’s trendy in pre-Cambrian and Palaeozoic Palynology? 9th European Palaeobotany - Palynol-ogy Conference, Padova, August, 26-31, 2014.

WARREN AUDREY, MERCEDES DI PASQUO, GEOR-GE GRADER, PETER ISAACSON, AARON RODRI-GUEZ, 2014. Latest Famennian Middle Sappington Shale: Lepidophyta-Verrucosisporites nitidus (LN) Zone at the Logan Gulch type section, Montana, USA. GSA Annual Meeting (Vancouver, British Co-lumbia, 19–22 October 2014), GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 46, No. 6. Abstract No: 248057.

WELLMAN, C.H., BREUER, P., MILLER, A., STEE-MANS, P., 2014. Early Silurian cryptospores from the subsurface of Saudi Arabia, 9th European Pal-aeobotany - Palynology conference. Padova, Italie: University of Padova, 308-309.

WENHUI, W., JUN, L., SERVAIS, T., YAN, K., Vecoli, M., 2014. Dactylofusa velifera Cocchio 1982 : a bios-tratigraphical and palaeogeographical important Ordovician acritarch species. Abstracts, 9th Euro-pean Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference (EPPC), Padova, Italy, August 26-31, 2014, 1 p.

WICANDER, R., 2014. An organic-walled microphy-toplankton assemblage from the Middle Devonian Arkona, Hungry Hollow, and Widder formations, Ontario, Canada: biostratigraphic and paleogeo-graphic significance. 4th International Palaeontolog-ical Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, September 28 – October 3, 2014. Abstract Volume, 634.

WOOD G.D., DI PASQUO, M., PETER E. ISAACSON, GEORGE W. GRADER, 2014. New taxa and com-prehensive overview of Devonian palynomorphs from the Oxy-Mobil Pando x-1 core, Madre de Dios Basin, Bolivia. 4th International Palaeontological Congress (Mendoza 28/9-3/10 de 2014). Abstracts.


begins to deepen already in the upper Katian and

we prefer to place the start of the development of the foreland basin at the onset of the deepening in the upper Katian.

From the lower Telychian on oxic-anoxic changes in the stratigraphical column of the Condroz Inlier are noted. From the upper Telychian on to the end of the Wenlock anoxic sedimentation takes place almost continuously, with deposition of dark grey, finely laminated mudstone; oxic intervals are lim-ited. Such mudstone, known as laminated hemi-pelagites, have already been recorded from the Brabant Massif and are here described for the first time from the Condroz Inlier.

PHD THESIS OF JAN MORTIER

Abstract:

Twelve years ago Verniers et al. (2002a) summa-rized what was known at the time about the Cam-brian to Middle Devonian basin evolution and defor-mation history of Belgium, eastern England and sur-rounding areas east of the Midlands Microcraton.

The combination of the data concerning the basin development, stratigraphy, sedimentology, subsid-ence history, magmatism, tectonic deformation and metamorphism led the authors to define three me-gasequences, each megasequence being character-ized by a different geodynamic setting. In the pre-sent study only the third megasequence, starting in the middle Katian, is considered. This me-gasequence is heralded by the first signs of the colli-sion, or better docking, of Avalonia and the conti-nent Baltica. During the middle Silurian, these two continents collide with Laurentia. A counterclock-wise rotation of the Midlands Microcraton with re-spect to the Lake District from the Caradoc (Sandbian- middle Katian) to the Emsian led to the convergence of the Midlands Microcraton and the Lüneberg-North Sea Microcraton, resulting in the Brabantian orogeny and the Anglo-Brabant Defor-mation Belt.

Stratigraphical data of the Condroz Inlier during the third megasequence are restricted, especially those for the Silurian part, this in contrast with our knowledge of the Brabant Massif. The data concern-ing the Condroz Inlier are mainly based on studies dating from the first half of the previous century. Some years ago, Vanmeirhaeghe (2006b), in his PhD study, revised the lithostratigraphy of the Ordovi-cian and parts of the lower Silurian of the Condroz Inlier in combination with a biostratigraphy using chitinozoans. Detailed field observations of the lithofacies in the Condroz Inlier led to the reconsid-eration of the lithostratigraphical units present in the inlier. Biostratigraphical analysis mainly with chitinozoans, but also with graptolites and brachio-pods, allowed to place the lithostratigraphical units in the chronostratigraphy. Once the stratigraphy of the Condroz Inlier was established, correlation with the Brabant Massif became possible. During me-gasequence 3 the sediments of the Condroz Inlier were deposited on the shelf, but the location of the sedimentation on the shelf changed through time. During the same megasequence sedimentation of the Brabant Massif starts with shelf deposition, but slope conditions prevail during the Silurian with deposition of turbidites. The thickness of the lithostratigraphical units generally increases through the Llandovery with thick deposits starting from the upper Telychian. The basin of the Brabant Massif


of Russia, and in 2009 became the corresponding member of the Subcommission on Devonian Stra-tigraphy.

With great enthusiasm, as interested and con-stantly well-wishing person with highly developed sense of responsibility, during the last decade Val-entina distributed all current information on the events organised by the Bureau of Palynological Commission of Russia and the International Feder-ation of Palynological Societies (IFPS) among paly-nologists and other palaeontologists of Russia and neighbouring countries.

Thankful and good memory of Valentina Mantsurova will forever remain in our hearts.

(*The main publications of VALENTINA MANTSUROVA can be found on the CIMP web site).

LEONARD E. EAMES June 17, 1936 - September 28, 2014

Leonard E. Eames (age 78) died on Sunday, Sep-tember 28, 2014 in Tulsa, Oklahoma surrounded by his children and loving wife, Jean Asbury Eames. Leonard was born on June 17, 1936 in Bedford, Ohio, the only child of Leonard Jackson Eames and Bertha Fair Eames. Living in a rural area, Len was surrounded by the fields and for-ests of northeast Ohio. Rocks and plants became lifelong interests.

Len loved cars. His first cars included a 1938 Plym-outh and a 1950 Chevy. He and his best friend Bill Waller enjoyed customizing their vehicles.

As a young man, he worked as an aircraft mechan-ic at Horn’s Flying School in Russell, Ohio where he learned to fly small planes. However, a career fix-ing planes outside during the winter was a persua-sive argument to go to college. He attended Kent State University where he majored in Biology and met his first wife, Carol Ely. He graduated in June 1961 and married Carol a week later. He was draft-ed into the Army and served two years as a lab technician at Fort Benning, GA. Three children, a master’s degree from Kent State in Botany and a Ph.D from Michigan State in Paleontology/Palynology followed.

Len moved his family to Tulsa in 1971 after ac-cepting a position as a Research Scientist with Amoco Production Company. His career allowed Len to travel, searching for rock samples from Baja California to Egypt to Canada. He retired from Amoco in 1994 and soon became an active volun-teer at Oxley Nature Center. He shared his love of nature, botany and butterflies with hundreds of schoolchildren over the next 20 years.

OBITUARIES

BUREAU OF PALYNOLOGICAL COMMISSION OF RUSSIA REGRETS TO INFORM ABOUT THE DEATH OF VALENTINA MANTSUROVA ON NOVEMBER 12TH, 2014

Valentina Mantsurova (Валентина Николаевна Манцурова) (cand.geol.-min.sci.) was born in Volgo-grad on July 27th, 1949. She graduated from the Fac-ulty of Geology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1974. In the years 1974-1978 she com-pleted doctoral studies at the Department of Palae-ontology at Moscow State University and successful-ly defended her thesis. All next years of her scien-tific research were closely related to the work in the Volgograd Oil Institute of Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR (now Branch "LUKOIL-Engineering" Ltd "VolgogradNIPImorneft"): from 1979 to 1994 as the Senior Researcher and since 1994 as the Leading Researcher.

V. Mantsurova has proved itself as a highly qualified specialist in the stratigraphy of Palaeozoic and Mes-ozoic deposits of the Lower Volga, Near-Caspian and Caspian Sea regions. The scientific interests of Val-entina within the palynology were concentrated on the palynostratigraphy of the Devonian and Lower Carboniferous of south-eastern Russian plate, bio-stratigraphy of Mesozoic deposits around and in the Caspian Sea. She has made a significant contribution to the development of palynostratigraphic zonation of the Middle and Upper Devonian of Russian Platform and palynological studies of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary deposits. As the result of her studies the position of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary in the Lower Volga was clarified and, based on the palynological data, was moved from the top to the base of the Linevskaya Formation.

V. Mantsurova published more than 120 scientific papers and monographs, gave many conference, meeting and congress presentations not only in Rus-sia, but also abroad (China, 2000, 2006; Greece, 2002; Spain, 2004; Czech Republic, 2006; France, 2007; Germany, 2008; Great Britain, 2010; Latvia, 2011; Japan, 2012; Portugal, 2013).*

Valentina was active member of several scientific societies and commissions: Palynological Commis-sion of Russia (since 1979), Russian Paleontological Society (since 1981), Moscow Society of Naturalists (since 2001), International Commission of the Palae-ozoic Microflora, CIMP (since 2008), Russian Inter-departmental Stratigraphic Commission, Section of the Lower Palaeozoic and Devonian of Central and Southern Russia (since 2009); in 2005 she became a member of the Bureau of Palynological Commission


Bowling Green, OH, and sons David Eames (Kelly), Lee's Summit MO, and Brian “Chip” (Jan) of Tulsa. Grandchildren Sam, Bailey, Jack and Will of Lee's Summit, MO and Tyler and Taryn of Tulsa. He is also survived by brother-in-law Douglas Asbury of Chicago, Ill.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions

to Oxley Nature Center, Hospice of Green Country or the American Cancer Society.

Reprinted with permission, from the December 2014, volume 47, number 4 AASP - The Palynological Society Newsleter, p. 24

Len’s hobbies included metal detecting and enjoyed many roles including president of the Indian Territo-ry Treasure Hunters Club and was an active member of the Tulsey Town Treasure Hunters. He spent many weekends attending treasure hunts through-out the Midwest. One of his proudest discoveries was helping law enforcement search for a knife used in local crime. Len found the knife in tall grass, help-ing to solve the crime.

Len married Jean Asbury on October 30, 1994. They shared their home with several beloved dogs.

He is survived by his wife, Jean Asbury Eames of Tulsa, OK, daughter Nancy Eames (Suzanne Grime),

INFORMATIONS AND NEWS

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Dear colleagues,

I guess many of you know me already from the last four years serving as secretary of the CIMP spore-pollen subcommission. I still continue to serve this subcommission for (at least) the next four years, only moving from secretary to subcommission president. I’m following Zelia Pereira in this posi-tion, serving 8 years as president of this subcomis-sion and I want to greatly acknowledge the great job she did for our subcommission. Thank you Zelia! On the other side I want to welcome Gilda Lopes as new secretary of our subcommission and we both will do our best to keep it running for the next years.

You actually received the first CIMP newsletter in the new format. To make things less complicated and hopefully improve the internal communication in CIMP, it was decided to have one CIMP news-letter including all subcommissions. The additional newsletters of the three subcommissions are can-celed, but each subcommission will have its own section within the new CIMP newsletter for specific subcommission related issues. This YOUR place in the newsletter, to bring in and discuss all the spores and pollen related issues, that you come across in your research and always wanted to share with other colleagues. The spore-pollen sub-

commission section of the newsletter is waiting for YOUR input. Therefore Gilda Lopes sent out an email earlier this year, asking for ideas and contri-butions to fill in the spore-pollen subcommission section. Unfortunately she didn’t received any re-plies to this. Maybe there are no more open ques-tions and discussions related to Palaeozoic pollen and spores, which I would seriously doubt. Or it was just too much confusion with all the new ide-as. So we give it a second try in the spore-pollen section of the next newsletter.

As already done in our email for the section of the spore-pollen subcommission, we ask you to share your ideas, views and concerns regarding Palaeo-zoic spores and pollen and their terrestrial palaeo-environments. Typical topics could be: newly de-scribed species of pollen and spores and their stratigraphic and regional distribution; open ques-tions and discussions on pollen/spore taxonomy, pollen/spore taphonomy, pollen/spore ecology, po-llen/spore distribution/palaeobiogeography; new topics and research directions regarding paleozoic pollen and spores or terrestrial palynology in the Palaeozoic at all. In my opinion there are many issues, that have to be discussed and worked on in more detail and the spore-pollen subcommission section in the CIMP newsletter could be a perfect place to bring up and discuss such issues.

To start up the spore-pollen subcommission sec-

President Hartmut Jager

COMMISSION INTERNATIONALE DE MICROFLORE DU PALÉOZOÏQUE

SUBCOMMISSION ON SPORES AND POLLEN

Thanks to all members who contributed to this newsletter!

Cover photo: Detailed of a megaspore ornamentation Credit: F. de Ville de Goyet



that voted for me. To all members, even those that I still haven’t got the pleasure to know, I hope to meet your expectations.

I would also like to congratulate all the new elect-ed colleagues, both for the subcommissions as well as the main board. I’m looking forward to working with all of you! For those that still don’t know me, I am a Paleozoic palynologist currently working as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. The Carboniferous biostratig-raphy of the Barents Sea is now my main theme of work but previously, during my PhD, I was focused on the biostratigraphy of the Portuguese Central-Iberian and Ossa-Morena Zones within a time frame that ranged from the Late Cambrian to the Early Carboniferous.

This year, I am also co-organizing a CIMP Meeting with Gunn Mangerud, Reed Wicander, and Marco Vecoli. I hope to see you all at the next CIMP Meeting at the University of Bergen!

Best Regards, Gilda Lopes

tion I want to ask all of you, working on pollen and spores, to send me your newly described, modified and emended species of the last three years. Please include the original descriptions and photo(s) of the type specimen and send it back to Gilda ([email protected]) or me ([email protected]). Because not all of us have access to all the different journals and might not be aware of all the new species, I would like to send around a com-pilation of newly described species at least once a year. I’m looking forward for your comprehensive contributions on this topic.

Cheers Hartmut

SECRETARY’S LETTER

Dear colleagues,

It is with immense pleasure that I’m writing to you to introduce myself as the new Spore and Pollen Subcommission Secretary. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to show my appreciation to Hartmut and Zélia for having invited me to apply for this position, and I also want to thank to everyone

Secretary Gilda Lopes






Dear colleagues,

I started to work with acritarchs as a master student, and dedicated my PhD to acritarch biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Belgium and Germany. At about that time, in the early 1990’s, I reactivated the acritarch subcommission together with Stewart Molyneux. Stewart was chairman (or president), and I served as secretary. This subcommission organised a congress on acritarchs at Prague in 1996 (with Olda Fatka as chair), and about 60 (sixty !) acritarch workers came together. The conference volume (published in Acta Universitatis Carolinae, section geology, 1997) inclu-ded a short paper that I wrote about the history of the acritarch subcommission, a group that was initiated in the early 1960’s.

The term acritarch is now over 50 years old (as is the subcommission !), and I tried to celebrate the term ‘acritarch’ with talks at the AASP/dinoflagellate mee-ting in San Francisco and the PalAss meeting in Zürich in 2013. However, almost nobody was left over to celebrate the 50th anniversary…

Most acritarch workers are now retired, or they are doing other things! We are now a very small commu-nity, with only a few handfuls of people. But compa-red to trilobites or graptolites, investigated since seve-ral centuries, acritarch research is still in its pioneering years. Many geographical areas of numerous geologi-

cal intervals remain totally unknown! The Lower Ordo-vician of Laurentia, the entire Upper Ordovician of the northern part of Gondwana (Australia, North China, etc.), for example, remain totally unknown.

And it appears almost utopic to ask these days for financial support to sponsor PhD studies to work on biostratigraphy in the Palaeozoic, as all funda-mental research must be orientated to answer societal questions: climate change and global war-ming, just to name a few.

So, is acritarch research dead ?

No, maybe the best years are over, and a quarter of a decade after the end of the glorious period, we have to evolve in another context. Our sub-commission produces now a joint newsletter with the other groups of palynologists. We should have meetings with other bodies (it seems impossible to bring 50 acritarch workers these days) and try to find new questions for our old group.

First step: with Gil as acritarch subcommission se-cretary, we have to track individually all acritarch workers. Our list of members is outdated. Circular e-mail messages sent out get only little answers. So, we will contact you individually very soon!

With best wishes,

Thomas Servais

President Thomas Servais


SUBCOMMISSION ON ACRITARCHS


Cover photo: Baltisphaeridium perclarum Loeblich & Tappan, 1978 Credit: Reed Wicander (CIMP WEB SITE)


Last but certainly not least, Palyweb is a database developed by the Liege palynology team which is focused on Paleozoic Palynology. It is wiki based and best of all, you can contribute to it! Most en-tries include description and images. Ask Philippe Steemans for a login to access it

http://www.palyweb.ulg.ac.be/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Other indexes are not available freely, but quite cheaply accesible such as the Fensome et al., 1990 Acritarchs and fossil prasinophytes: an index to genera, species and infraspecific taxa, from AASP. It is probably the most extensive (and up to date despite its 25 years!) published index for Palynology. It includes all the known species to 1990. For each there is a discussion on the validity and synonymy, although no descriptions or images are provided.

If you know other databases or useful resources online please let the palynological community know. Maybe you developed your own database and feel the urge to share it!


It seems like yesterday when I moved to Oman. It was a great opportunity to work as professional Paleozoic - and also Precambrian - Stratigrapher and Palynologist. I returned to Portugal late last year and restarted as a Geoscientist at Galp Energia this January. Although I will be responsible for the bios-tratigraphy work in the company (no microscope for me, only third party reports), there will be a lot of seismic interpretation, well data to manage and other sorts of exploration work.

Regarding research, I am currently involved with several small projects relating to the Precambrian of Oman, both standard palynology and material from thin sections; Cambrian conodonts from Oman; De-vonian conodonts from Portugal and hopefully one day I will publish parts of my thesis about the strati-graphy and palynology of a Pennsylvanian basin in Portugal and also Devonian acritarchs from another basin in Portugal.

Too many things, too little time!

Gil Machado

PALYNOLOGY DATABASES AND RESOURCES ONLINE

There are several taxonomic databases available online. Probably one of the most complete is The Taxonomicon. It includes nearly every fossil group. Although it goes down to species level, for most genera the species are not listed extensively, e.g. Veryhachium has 6 species listed, but you do find possible synonyms and the original author

http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/

In terms of nomenclature to use, the most complete is certainly the Glossary of Pollen and Spore Termi-nology developed at Utrecht University. Although focused on pollen and spores, much of the nomen-clature is used in other organic walled microfossils.

Available here:http://www.pollen.mtu.edu/glos-gtx/glos-int.htm

And published here http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034666706001291

If you find Fungi under the microscope (or some-thing that resembles Fungi), then this digitised ver-sion of the The Kalgutkar and Jansonius Database of Fossil Fungi is the thing for you. Searchable and browsable as a list, it includes description and sketch for many of the entries. Genus and species level.

http://advance.science.sfu.ca/Kalgutkar_and_Jansonius/index.php?-link=Home

Secretary Gil Machado



http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/

http://www.pollen.mtu.edu/glos-gtx/glos-int.htm

http://www.pollen.mtu.edu/glos-gtx/glos-int.htm







At the last CIMP meeting in Padova, I was happy to be able to report the result of the election of our new secretary of the Chitinozoa Subcommission, Wenhui Wang, from the Nanjing University. Our small community has been able to communi-cate over the last year results involving chitinozo-ans at conferences as the CIMP session in Padova, the IGCP 591 meetings, the AASP meeting, the GSA meeting and the different symposia of the Interna-tional Stratigraphic Subcommission on the Silurian and Ordovician as in Kunming (China). As a help to all members of the Subcommission Chitinozoa we can send you any missing pdfs of chitinozoans arti-cles to make your set of publications complete. Below you can find some websites with infor-mation on chitinozoans. Some are very good, oth-ers less complete. If you know about others please mention them to Wenhui and me. At the coming CIMP meeting next September in Bergen (Norway) we can discuss how we can distribute our knowledge on chitinozoans to the active workers and also to the interested persons. At the coming CIMP meeting I would like to continue the discus-sion started in Padova on how the Subcommission can help you: a platform for taxonomic discussion, a platform for dissemination of new results. Maybe we can discuss the need for a functional website for chitinozoan workers or a database with all pub-

lications in pdf form. I hope that you can make it all to Bergen and I’m eager to meet you there, see your results or hear from you before by email.

Jacques Verniers


Wenhui Wang is an assistant researcher at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering in Nan-jing University, China since 2013. She obtained her PhD degree of Paleontology and Stratigraphy in the same year after completing a thesis on the Ordovi-cian fossil groups from graptolitic shales. Wenhui got in touch with palynology (chitinozoans and acritarchs) when she was at the Research Unit of Paleontology during 2010 (Ghent University, Bel-gium) and Geosystem department (University of Lille 1), where she conducted an integrated study on early Ordovician chitinozoans, acritarchs and graptolites from South China. At the beginning of 2014, she spent some time on some characteristic early Ordovician acritarchs which are of great bio-stratigraphical and palaeogeographical potential. Her closest research attention is paid to a research project focusing on the geographic and biostrati-graphic distribution of graptolitic shales in South China across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary. Wenhui is in charge of check the chitinozoan and

President Jacques Verniers

Secretary Wenhui Wang


SUBCOMMISSION ON CHITINOZOANS


Cover photo: Detail of chitinozoan ornamentation Credit: Wikipedia


OTHER WEBSITES FOR CHITINOZOANS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitinozoan (also wiki French, Portuguese, Dutch, Catalan, etc)

http://www.encyclo.nl/begrip/chitinozoa (repeats http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitinozoa)

http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/main/classification/94209.htm, with some errors Clavachmna in stead of Clavachitina.

http://www.gbif.org/species/101496159 (with 113 genera mentioned, but validity not discussed).

http://eol.org/pages/2912515/overview (database uncurated yet, linked to Encyclopedia of Life data-base)

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Chitinozoa

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/ppchtnz.html (with old links)

acritarch biostratigraphy from boreholes. Mean-while, Wenhui is also working on middle Ordovician chitinozoans and graptolites from both Anhui prov-ince and Qinghai Province in China, in hope of work-ing out the biogeographic relationship between the two different Terrence during middle Ordovician.

WEBSITES WITH CHITINOZOANS

http://fossiilid.info/34 (excellent site in the data-base Paleobiodiversity in Baltoscandia by the Insti-tute of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology, for chitinozoans in the Baltic area). http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/acritarch.html from the University College London Micropalaeon-tology Unit.

http://www.geosciences.univ-rennes1.fr/IMG/pdf/Alphabetic_list_of_chitinozoan_species-3.pdf (list of all species described up to 2010)

http://cimp.weebly.com/ (new CIMP website, partly under construction).

http://www.cimp.ulg.ac.be/Chitinozoans.html CIMP website in Liège.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitinozoan

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitinozoa

http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/main/classification/94209.htm

http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/main/classification/94209.htm

http://www.gbif.org/species/101496159

http://eol.org/pages/2912515/overview



http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/ppchtnz.html

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/ppchtnz.html

http://fossiilid.info/34

http://www.gi.ee

http://www.gi.ee

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/acritarch.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/acritarch.html

http://www.geosciences.univ-rennes1.fr/IMG/pdf/Alphabetic_list_of_chitinozoan_species-3.pdf

http://www.geosciences.univ-rennes1.fr/IMG/pdf/Alphabetic_list_of_chitinozoan_species-3.pdf

http://www.cimp.ulg.ac.be/Chitinozoans.html

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